Indian independence · BATTLE SITE ·
Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885–86)
On the Indian independence map as “Mandalay — Upper Burma annexed”
Nov 1885 – 1 Jan 1886 — A river force steamed up the Irrawaddy and took Mandalay within a fortnight; King Thibaw was exiled to Ratnagiri on India’s west coast, and Upper Burma was annexed as a province of British India. Resistance in the countryside lasted for years.
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- British Raj and the early Congress (chapter 2 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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