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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Maps
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of Tables
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Preface to the 2011 Edition
  2. pp. xiii-xx
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xxi-xxii
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  1. Citation of Selected Government Reports
  2. p. xxiii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 3-11
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  1. I. The Foundations of Social and Economic Development
  1. 1. The Delta Rice Frontier under Konbaung and Early British Rule
  2. pp. 15-38
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  1. II. The Early Phase of Growth, 1852-1907
  1. 2. Internal Migration in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century
  2. pp. 41-57
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  1. 3. Agrarian Development on the Advancing Rice Frontier
  2. pp. 58-82
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  1. 4. Indian Immigration to Lower Burma in the First Phase of Development
  2. pp. 83-102
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  1. 5. The Genesis of the Plural Society in Lower Burma: The Era of Symbiosis
  2. pp. 103-123
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  1. III. The Decades of Transition, 1908-30
  1. 6. The Closing Rice Frontier and New Patterns of Agrarian Development
  2. pp. 127-153
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  1. 7. Changing Migration Patterns and the Rise of Competition in the Mature Plural Society
  2. pp. 154-181
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  1. IV. The Years of Social and Economic Crises, 1931-41
  1. 8. The Depression and Burma's Time of Troubles: Communal Violence and Agrarian Rebellion
  2. pp. 185-208
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 209-226
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  1. Glossary
  2. pp. 227-230
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  1. Appendix
  2. pp. 231-234
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 235-252
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  1. Index
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