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26: 282:, but the port became congested. An agreement was reached with the Indians to raise their wages, whereupon the Burmans were dismissed. As they returned to work the Indians jeered the outgoing Burmans and violence ensued. For days Burman mobs, often composed of toughs imported from other neighbourhoods, roamed about for Indians, who barricaded themselves in their homes and, in one case, in the local lunatic asylum. Order was only restored when the Rangoon garrison, the 286:, was sent in. According to British colonial government sources, roughly 120 people of Indian origin were killed and more than 900 were injured. However, more recent analyses estimate that more than 200 were killed and 2,000 injured. The majority of all killed and wounded was Indian. 289:
The riot in the jail was a lesser mirror image of the dockyard riots. The Indian prison staff killed, mainly by gunshot, 34 inmates (out of 2,000) and injured 60 others.
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docks. It spread to nearby districts with high Indian populations and resulted in over one hundred killed and about one thousand injured. The second, a
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Warren, James (2002). "The Rangoon Jail Riot of 1930 and the Prison Administration of British Burma".
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The Indian Minority in Burma: The Rise and Decline of an Immigrant Community
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The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region
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for increased wages. Burman labourers were brought in to
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Rangoon
British Burma
16°51′N 96°11′E / 16.850°N 96.183°E / 16.850; 96.183
Indian
Burman
Cameron Highlanders
King George V
Colonel-in-Chief
Neville John Gordon Cameron
Colonel of the Regiment
race riots
Indian
Burman
Rangoon
prison riot
Rangoon Central Jail
Saya San rebellion
Great Depression
strike
break the strike
Cameron Highlanders
King 2008





Brown 2013
"Burma (Myanmar) 1930-2007"

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