A Civil Servant in Burma

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Sir Herbert Thirkell White

PREFACE

CONTENTS

NOTE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ERRATUM.

A CIVIL SERVANT IN BURMA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: A RETROSPECT AND SOME COMPARISONS

CHAPTER II EARLY YEARS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS

CHAPTER III THE FIRST SUBDIVISION: THE SECRETARIAT

CHAPTER IV SOME ASPECTS OF BURMESE LIFE AND CHARACTER

CHAPTER V ON THE FRONTIER

CHAPTER VI THE SECRETARIAT: THE LAST SUBDIVISION

CHAPTER VII THE TAKING OF MANDALAY

CHAPTER VIII EARLY DAYS AT MANDALAY

CHAPTER IX LORD DUFFERIN'S VISIT: MANDALAY ONCE MORE

CHAPTER X THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE ANNEXATION

CHAPTER XI A FEW WORDS ON BUDDHISM

CHAPTER XII UNDER SIR CHARLES CROSTHWAITE, 1887-1890

CHAPTER XIII A VISIT TO THE SHAN STATES

CHAPTER XIV RANGOON MANDALAY

CHAPTER XV LOWER BURMA ONCE MORE

CHAPTER XVI MANDALAY THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION

CHAPTER XVII THE CHIEF COURT LAST YEARS IN BURMA

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Transcriber's Note:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including some inconsistent hyphenation and accents. The erratum noted after the list of illustrations has been fixed. Some other changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text.

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A CIVIL SERVANT IN BURMA

Buddha’s Foot.

A CIVIL SERVANT
IN BURMA

BY
SIR HERBERT THIRKELL WHITE, K.C.I.E.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1913
(All rights reserved)

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TO
MY WIFE
WHO SHARED
MY LIFE IN BURMA
FOR MORE THAN THIRTY-TWO YEARS

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