The Burmese Railway to China: The Irrawaddy River Railway

Dídac Cubeiro Rodríguez ()
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Dídac Cubeiro Rodríguez: Autonomous University of Barcelona

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Pearl of the East, 2023, pp 83-120 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the nineteenth century, Britain attempted to secure its hegemonic position in India in the face of Russian threats to the north and Dutch and French threats to the Bay of Bengal. The fear of a Napoleonic attack on India radically changed British policy, and Britain adopted a much more aggressive approach by eliminating the autonomy of independent local principalities and stationing British troops in those territories.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21674-9_4

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