A Civil Servant in Burma

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	INTRODUCTORY: A RETROSPECT AND SOME COMPARISONS	1
II.	EARLY YEARS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS	16
III.	THE FIRST SUBDIVISION: THE SECRETARIAT	36
IV.	SOME ASPECTS OF BURMESE LIFE AND CHARACTER	55
V.	ON THE FRONTIER	73
VI.	THE SECRETARIAT: THE LAST SUBDIVISION	90
VII.	THE TAKING OF MANDALAY	99
VIII.	EARLY DAYS AT MANDALAY	114
IX.	LORD DUFFERIN’S VISIT—MANDALAY ONCE MORE	137
X.	THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE ANNEXATION	154
XI.	A FEW WORDS ON BUDDHISM	183
XII.	UNDER SIR CHARLES CROSTHWAITE, 1887-1890	201
XIII.	A VISIT TO THE SHAN STATES	225
XIV.	RANGOON—MANDALAY	235
XV.	LOWER BURMA ONCE MORE	256
XVI.	MANDALAY: THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION	266
XVII.	THE CHIEF COURT—LAST YEARS IN BURMA	285
	GLOSSARY	307
	INDEX	309

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