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Conquest and Concession: The Case of the Burma Ruby Mines (1988)

Turrell, Robert Vicat

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Modern Asian studies 22 (1988), S. 141-163

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ISSN: 0026-749X

Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives

Topics: Ethnic Sciences , History , Political Science , Economics

Notes: A compelling vignette of the use of political influence for private gain in the expansion of the British empire is provided by the way King Thebaw' s legendary ruby mines in Upper Burma were acquired by British speculators in the late 1880s. The details of how the ruby-mine concession was awarded to a syndicate soon after Upper Burma was annexed to Britain in 1886 are not well known, although the concesion-mongering created a furore in the India Office and the House of Commons. There was even, at the time, a suggestion that the rubymine affair infleunced Lord Dufferin's decision to resign as Viceroy in 1888.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00009446

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