After winning Burma in 1886, the British country briefly joined the Indian Union, but why was it forced to secede just before India gained her independence?

According to the 1891 census conducted by the British, there were between 2,000 and 3,000 castes in India.

The British classified people into castes according to their lip size, eye breadth, and nose length, with information about each caste listed from top to bottom.

 


According to that hierarchy, the person who remained above becomes a major caste, while the one who was below becomes a minor caste. In the past, there were several forms of discrimination if you were a baniya, for example, as a caste.

The British believed that Burma was distinct from India; in support of this, they said that the culture and religion were different, and as a result, it should be regarded as a Buddhist state and not part of India.

However, the same British did not tyre of claiming in their speeches that Burma was a separate culture from us while, in reality, it was a country with distinct cultures.



They were designated a distinct country for obvious reasons, but this was not the sole justification. The reasoning was obviously ludicrous.

Even though Britain already had a negative attitude towards India and it was clear that they did not like Indian culture, receiving such a vast nation was unpleasant for them.

Britain divided Burma by announcing it a distinct nation ten to twelve years before India's independence because it believed that its worldwide supremacy may be lessened or abolished at any point after the First World War.

This is what they did before World War – ll started.

The British were alarmed when Subash Chandra Bose overthrew the religion and founded a new independent government with these regions, including India.

While all of this was going on, in Burma, a man rose to power who at first supported Japan in its fight against the British, but when Japan began to lose strength, he changed his stance and began to wage war against the Japanese.

His rise to prominence as a local leader was subsequently aided by the British, and now he is revered as the father of the nation. However, the 1948 declaration of Burma's independence and the subsequent merger with India were both triggered by the British-run agenda.



In a similar vein, they viewed Bhutan as unique, despite the fact that the people of Bhutan did not share their views. Bhutan was one of the nations that accepted Indian control and had access to India when India gained independence.

But Nehru was not Interested in this.



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