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39. Statesman, 15 August 1947.
40. Tapan Raychaudhuri, Romonthon Atharba Bhimratipraptar paracharit charcha (Calcutta, 1993), p. 98, 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.
41. Statesman, 4 August 1947.
42. Statesman, 8 September 1947.
43. Statesman, 30 October 1947.
44. Dash, Bengal Diary, vol. X, p. 6, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
45. Samar Sen, ‘Birthday’, translated by Subhoranjan Das Gupta, ‘Poems on a divided world’, in Samaddar, Reflections on partition, p. 201.
46. Attlee to Nehru, 17 July 1947, Mansergh, Transfer of power in India, vol. XII, p. 214.
47. Angelene Naw, Aung San and the struggle for Burmese independence (Copenhagen, 2001), p. 186, citing Wavell to Pethick-Lawrence, 4 January 1947, in Mansergh, Transfer of power in India, vol. XI, p. 503.
48. Naw, Aung San, p. 188.
49. Dawn [Karachi], 6 January 1947.
50. New York Times, 6 January 1947, cited in Uma Shankar Singh, Burma and India 1948–62 (Delhi, 1979), p. 43.
51. Dr R. H. Taylor, ‘Interview with U Kyaw Nyein’, 19 November 1976, Mss Eur D1066/2, OIOC.
52. See CAB 133/3, TNA; the key documents are printed in Hugh Tinker (ed.), Burma. The struggle for independence 1944–48, vol. II: From general strike to independence, 31 August 1946 to 4 January 1948 (London, 1984), pp. 271–84 and following.
53. Taylor, ‘Interview with U Kyaw Nyein’.
54. Ibid.
55. Cabinet India–Burma Committee meeting, 22 January 1947, L/WS/1/1578, OIOC.
56. E.g. summaries in Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 9 January 1947, in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, pp. 242–3.
57. Central intelligence staff Singapore telegram, 5 January, military appreciations 1946–7, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/5, OIOC.
58. John H. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma 1945–48 (Tunbridge Wells, 1990), p. 173.
59. Rance to Laithwaite, 28 January 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/4, OIOC; Rance to Pethick-Lawrence, 22 January 1947, Tinker, Burma, vol. II, p. 328.
60. Rance to Laithwaite, 28 January, 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/4, OIOC.
61. Naw, Aung San, pp. 188–9; ‘Bogyoke Aung San speaks to press conference,’ 3 February 1947, M/4/2590, OIOC.
62. Tom Driberg, Ruling passions (London, 1978), p. 217.
63. Naw, Aung San, pp. 191–2.
64. Taylor, ‘Interview with U Kyaw Nyein’.
65. Naw, Aung San, p. 198.
66. Narrative of Arthur George Bottomley, Mss Eur E362/2, OIOC, reproduced in part in Tinker, Burma, vol. II, pp. 841–8.
67. Ibid., p. 842.
68. ‘Note of a meeting of a Karen deputation with the Governor on Tuesday 25 February, 1947, ibid., pp. 437–8.
69. Pethick-Lawrence to Rance, 3 April 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/2, OIOC.
70. Aung San to the frontier peoples, Times of Burma, 15 June 1947.
71. ‘Frontier Areas Commission of Enquiry; Recommendations and Observations’, 24 April 1947, R/8/33, OIOC.
72. New Times of Burma, 5 June 1947.
73. Rance to Burma Office, 29 May 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/2, OIOC.
74. Rance to Listowel, 3 June 1947, ibid.
75. Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/6, OIOC.
76. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, pp. 98–9.
77. New Times of Burma, 14 June 1947.
78. New Times of Burma, 11 June 1947.
79. New Times of Burma, 3 June 1947.
80. New Times of Burma, 31 May 1947.
81. New Times of Burma, 4 June 1947.
82. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 16 July 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/13, OIOC.
83. Ibid.
84. Khin Myo Chit, ‘Memoir’, f. 105, Mss Eur D1066/1, OIOC.
85. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 19 July 1947, 12.00 hours, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/13, OIOC.
86. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 19 July 1947, 16.25 hours, ibid.
87. Khin Myo Chit, ‘Memoir’, f. 105.
88. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, p. 110.
89. G. E. Crombie to Laithwaite, 19 July 1947, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
90. New Times of Burma, 22 July 1947.
91. June Bingham, U Thant of Burma: the search for peace (London, 1966), pp. 164–6.
92. Governor of Burma to Secretary