Burmans

Military History Of Burma - Colonial Era - World War I and Interwar Period
... the war, the British needed manpower, and relaxed the ban, raising a Burman battalion in the 70th Burma Rifles, a Burman company in the 85th Burma Rifles, and seven Burman Mechanical Transport companies ... In addition, three companies of Burma Sappers and Miners, made up of mostly Burmans, and a company of Labour Corps, made up of Chins and Burmans, were also ... The British stopped recruiting Burmans, and gradually discharged most of their Burman troops between 1923 and 1925 ...

Anglo-Burmese People - History - Post-independence
... makeup of independent Burma to take account of the Anglo-Burman people including, most importantly, reserved seats in the parliament of the newly established Union ... Aung San, prior to his death, had addressed the Anglo-Burman Union to press the issue of acceptance and the fears the community had for their presence in independent Burma ... immediately followed, however, a stream of Anglo-Burmans leaving the country, who were fearful of what awaited them and the country since the end of British rule ...

Anglo-Burmese People - History - Military Rule
... At this time, many more Anglo-Burmans left due to discriminatory measures taken against minority groups, particularly those the military deemed as vestiges ... Anglo-Burmans already in the Armed Forces were dismissed and those who wanted to join were now barred ... There were also mass dismissals of Anglo-Burmans from the Civil Service in departments where they had previously dominated such as the Railways, the Union of Burma Airways, Customs Department, Division of ...

Pyu City-states - Demography
... The city-states were mainly populated by the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu people, who like their cousins Burmans are believed to have migrated from present-day north central China, reconstructed as modern ... In the north, trickles of Burmans may have entered the Pyu realm from Yunnan as early as the 7th century ... Modern scholarship however holds that Burmans did not arrive in large numbers until mid-to-late 9th century, and perhaps as late as the 10th century, according to radiocarbon dating of Pagan's walls ...

Geordie Walker - Equipment
... I took it home, plugged it into the Burmans, and the sound was there - a full resonance, and totally bell-like with the sustain on it through 250 watts of amplification in ... Having started out with a Burman amplifier with custom Burman 8 x 10 cabinets, He currently uses 2 x Framus Dragon Head amplifiers, he has also recently experimented with a Marshall Vintage ...