The British used cheap Indian labor to exploit our agriculture ... if he had five years’ continuous residence in Burma prior to World War II, and many Indians have applied, but frequently ...

A volume in the Kansas series “Modern War Studies”, The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army is essential reading for anyone interested in the Asia-Pacific war, the ...

In eastern India in 1944 ... a controversial British irregular warfare expert, Orde Wingate. Wingate had recently returned from a punishing guerrilla raid into Burma, though his irregular forces ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of ... The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World ...

The British administered Burma as a province of India, thus migration to Burma was considered an internal movement. The Burmese government still considers, however, that the migration which took ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma ...

New Delhi: Lance Naik Charan Singh (retd), a World War II veteran who served the ... was recognised with the prestigious Burma Star Award and the Indian Independence Medal. After 17 years of ...

NEW DELHI: Lance Naik Charan Singh (retired), a World War II veteran who served in the Indian Army for 17 years and was honored with the esteemed Burma Star Award, recently celebrated his 100th ...