[nukkad] Burma

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Burma was NEVER part of India.

MC Gupta
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Guptaji,
Burma was for sure part of British India. It got separated in 1935. Large
presence of Tamilians, Bengalis and Gujaratis there is a solid proof to rely
upon.
The last Mughal emperor, Bahadurshah Jaffar was tried in Delhi, but was sent
to Mandalay jail in Rangoon, where  he inscribed those famous lines before
dying in seclusion  : Na kisiki ankh ka noor hun
mein...................Prior to the opening of the most dreaded Andaman
prison, the revolutionaries as well as criminals from main land Hind were
transported to Rangoon. Hardly anybody returned to India alive.
Further, if my information is not wrong, either C.V.Raman or
Dr.Radhakrishnan did serve the British India government in Burma in his
early career as accountant.
Justice Manohar Thakkar, a Gujju, who was appointed to probe Bofors scandal
too began his career in Burma.
And before I close, remember those melodious lines of old hit song : Mere
piya gaye Rangoon, wahan se kiya he telephone, tumhari yaad satati hein,
jiya mein aag lagati hein.
How many Gujjus made their life's fortune in Rangoon ?? Well it had became a
fashion to change surname to Rangoonwalla or Burmawalla.
After 1935 it remained an autonomous British colony, its administration
detached from India. Burma's British connection's ' the end ' came when
Subhashchandra's Indian National Army seized it from the British in 1944.
INA had reportedly finished off over 1000 British soldiers and as many other
European mercinaries then in British army, while Gurkhas, Sikhs and Marathas
changed side.
Capt. Laxmi Sehgal is the living eye witness of Bose's Burma expedition.
Nehru did try a lot to revive old relationship, but for the attitude of Gen.
Ne Win...................

Rohit Zaveri.




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