Federated Shan States
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The Federated Shan States was an administrative division of the British Empire made up by the much larger Shan States and the Karenni States during British rule in Burma.
Seal of the Shan States
British rule in Burma
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British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independen
Federated Shan States
…ပဒေသရာဇ်ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်စု) was an administrative division of the British Empire made up by the much larger Shan States and the Karenni States during British rule in Burma. The federation was established in order to facilitate the future transfer of the Shan principalities to the Governor of Burma. Unaware of the implications…
British naval forces entering the harbour of Rangoon in May 1824
Photograph of the arrival of British forces in Mandalay on 28 November 1885 at the end of the Third Anglo-Burmese War.
In this rendering, British officers take King Thibaw onto a steamship en route to exile in India. He would never see Burma again.
"Proclamation" of the annexation of Burma into the British Empire in English and Burmese, published in Mandalay on 4 January 1886