Rule and Conflict: The Myanmarese colonial experience, ethnic fragmentation through the lens of methods of rule
(2023) STVK12 20231Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis examines the underlying causes of the ethnic conflict in Myanmar through an analysis of how British rule impacted Myanmar and its subsequent development and ethnic fragmentation. This has been done in order to find out if British colonialism might have caused ethnic fragmentation and to test a hypothesis about whether the specific characteristics of how Myanmar was colonised caused this fragmentation and if this is a unique case among the British colonies in Asia This has been done through a theoretical framework focused on the organisation of direct and indirect methods of rule through literature which examines the organisation of British colonialism. The method for examining colonial Myanmar has been a comparative case study... (More)
- This thesis examines the underlying causes of the ethnic conflict in Myanmar through an analysis of how British rule impacted Myanmar and its subsequent development and ethnic fragmentation. This has been done in order to find out if British colonialism might have caused ethnic fragmentation and to test a hypothesis about whether the specific characteristics of how Myanmar was colonised caused this fragmentation and if this is a unique case among the British colonies in Asia This has been done through a theoretical framework focused on the organisation of direct and indirect methods of rule through literature which examines the organisation of British colonialism. The method for examining colonial Myanmar has been a comparative case study in which Myanmar and India as British colonies have been analysed through literature which provides a historical overview of these cases. According to the findings, the ethnic conflict in Myanmar was caused by the process in which Myanmar was directly conquered by the British and how this subsequently influenced the severity of the organisation of British rule in Myanmar, and that there is circumstantial evidence to support the hypothesis, but that more future research can be done to examine it in more depth. (Less)
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- author
- Hugander, Max LU
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- organization
- course
- STVK12 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 9116175
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abstract = {{This thesis examines the underlying causes of the ethnic conflict in Myanmar through an analysis of how British rule impacted Myanmar and its subsequent development and ethnic fragmentation. This has been done in order to find out if British colonialism might have caused ethnic fragmentation and to test a hypothesis about whether the specific characteristics of how Myanmar was colonised caused this fragmentation and if this is a unique case among the British colonies in Asia This has been done through a theoretical framework focused on the organisation of direct and indirect methods of rule through literature which examines the organisation of British colonialism. The method for examining colonial Myanmar has been a comparative case study in which Myanmar and India as British colonies have been analysed through literature which provides a historical overview of these cases. According to the findings, the ethnic conflict in Myanmar was caused by the process in which Myanmar was directly conquered by the British and how this subsequently influenced the severity of the organisation of British rule in Myanmar, and that there is circumstantial evidence to support the hypothesis, but that more future research can be done to examine it in more depth.}},
author = {{Hugander, Max}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Rule and Conflict: The Myanmarese colonial experience, ethnic fragmentation through the lens of methods of rule}},
year = {{2023}},
}