honest, it is true that the British are robbing and pilfering Burma quite shamelessly.” Writing a few years later in London, he thought that Burma had indeed developed “to a certain extent” but that the Burmese themselves were now poorer, as wages were not keeping up with the cost of living and the weight of colonial taxation was ever harder to bear. “The reason is that the British government has allowed free entry into Burma for veritable hordes of Indians, who come from a land where they were literally dying of hunger, work for next to nothing and are, as a result, fearsome rivals for the
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