Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
Apr 20, 2011
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299283542
ISBN-13
9780299283544
Description
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.
Genres
History