In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in
1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was
transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater
of the Konbaung Empire into the world’s largest exporter of rice.
This seminal and far-reaching work focuses on two major aspects of
that transformation: the growth of the agrarian sector of the rice
industry of Lower Burma and the history of the plural society that
evolved largely in response to rapid economic expansion. “Adas
has made a major contribution to the study of economic history and
development of Burma and demonstrated most impressively what can be
achieved by imaginative and careful scholarship to our
understanding of colonial regimes in Southeast Asia.” —Albert
D. Moscotti, Journal of Asian and African Studies.
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