British rule in the Burma

People brought to up Kipling’s road to Mandalay, on fielding hall’s soul of a, had of shock in 1942 they hard of our troop in Burma, as they fell back before the Japanese month after month, in the blinding heat and glare, being refused a welcome, nay, being attacked in the village through which they passed. What could have happened to cause such a change in such al decent people?
The answer is both picture of Burmese – content under there white rule a generation ago, fifth columnist today – are alike false. Things are never as simple as that. Indeed we shall have to look into the past, to see how the nation grew up, before we can even begin to understand.

ETHNOGRAPY
Indo-china is a misleading name for the great peninsula comprise Burma, Siam and French indo-china, as India and china neither meet nor blend; they may appear to meet on the map, but actually their inhabited areas are a thousand miles apart, with a tangle of tail jungle and ice-clad peaks between. Yet it is a correct name, and the people proto-Malay and mongoloid the civilization is Indian.