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30. Manju Bandyopadhyay, cited in Sandip Bandyopadhyay, ‘The riddles of partition: memories of the Bengali Hindus’, in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Reflections on partition in the east (Calcutta, 1997), p. 68.
31. J. Tyson to his family, 30 November 1946, Tyson Papers, Mss Eur E341/41, OIOC.
32. Moon, Wavell, entry for 27 August 1945, p. 341.
33. Tyson to his family, 17 November 1946, Tyson Papers, Mss Eur E341/41, OIOC.
34. Counter-Intelligence summary, Burma Command, fortnight to 15 August 1946, f. 11, L/WS/1/744, OIOC.
35. Ibid., f. 21.
36. Counter-Intelligence summary, fortnight to end July, 1946, f. 35, ibid.
37. Note by Rance, 15 September 1946, in Hugh Tinker (ed.), Burma: the struggle for independence 1944–1948, vol. II: From general strike to independence, 31 August 1946 to 4 January 1948 (London, 1984), p. 19.
38. SACSEA to Cabinet, 17 September 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
39. John H. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, 1945–48 (Tunbridge Wells, 1990), p. 56.
40. See daily progress reports of general strike, 24–30 September 1945, ‘The strike of September 1946’, Arnold Papers, Mss Eur F145/38 OIOC.
41. Mr Binns’s press release and note ‘immediate’ by F. Donnison, 21 September 1946, ibid.
42. Appeal by Maung Tin and F. B. Arnold, c. 23 September 1946, ibid.
43. Note by Montgomery, 23 September 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
44. Note by Rance, 15 September 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 22.
45. ‘His Excellency’s interview with U Saw’, 12 September 1945, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
46. Note by Rance, ‘Interview with U Saw’, 12 September 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 17.
47. Memorandum of U Saw to Rance, October 1946, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/72, OIOC.
48. Ibid.
49. SACSEA to Cabinet, 21 September 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
50. Rance To Pethick-Lawrence, 21 September 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 56.
51. Aung San to Rance, 17 September 1946, L/WS/1, 669; reproduced in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 33.
52. Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 19 September 1946, ibid. pp. 47–8.
53. The Burman, 3 November 1946, clipping, FO/643/38 (G6/G546), TNA, reproduced in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 105.
54. Cabinet India and Burma Committee, 18 September 1946, ibid. pp. 36–9.
55. Progress Report for October 1946, Government of Burma Commerce and Supply Department, Arnold Papers, Mss Eur F145/24, OIOC.
56. Ibid.
57. Wavell reproducing Nehru to Aung San, 8 October 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 78, citing Mansergh, Transfer of Power in India, vol. VIII, p. 682.
58. ‘Hon. Aung San’s proposal for the immediate grant of a fuller measure of self-government to the people of Burma’, 11 November 1946, R/8/36, OIOC.
59. Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 13 November 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, pp. 139–40
60. Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 13 November 1946, R/8/36, OIOC.
61. Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 12 November 1946, ibid.
62. Rance’s memorandum on the need to accelerate the progress of constitutional advance for Burma, 12 November 1946, ibid.
63. Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 13 November 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, pp. 139–44.
64. Angelene Naw, Aung San and the struggle for Burmese independence (Copenhagen, 2001), pp. 177–81.
65. Extract from The Burman, 3 November 1946, 643/38, TNA, cited in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 105.
66. Thein Pe, ‘A critique of the communist movement in Burma’, a note to Indian communsists, 1973; Mss Eur C498, OIOC.
67. Invitation to reception 22 October 1946, Tom Driberg Papers, S3, 2, 51, Christ Church, Oxford; cf. ibid., no. 54, conversation between Tom Harrisson (Mass Observation) and Karen representatives, passed on to Driberg.
68. Combined civil and military intelligence for December 1946, ff. 70–4, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/5, OIOC.
69. ‘Reuter interview with Bogyoke Aung San, 16 December 1946’, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 194.
70. John H. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, 1945–48 (Tunbridge Wells, 1990), pp. 75–90.
71. Hansard, House of Commons debates, vol. 431, col. 2343–5, cited in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 209.
72. Laithwaite