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The Union of Burma came formally into existence on 4 January, 1948. On this day, Sir Hubert Rance, the last British Governor, handed over authority to Sao Shwe Thaik, the first President of the Burmese Republic; the Cabinet took the oath of office, and Parliament ratified the treaty with Great Britain providing for the independence of Burma as a country not within His Britannic Majesty’s dominions and not entitled to His Britannic Majesty’s protection. This treaty was signed in London on 17 October, 1947, and enacted by the British Parliament on 10 December, 1947.

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Books of Reference on Burma

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  1. S. H Steinberg Ph.D.
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S. H Steinberg Ph.D. (Fellow op the Royal Historical Society)

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Steinberg, S.H. (1948). Union of Burma. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270770_14

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