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    Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) by Legg, Stephen

    Published 2012
    “…The central government stimulated provincial segregation through expressing its desires via demi-official memoranda and confidential correspondence, to which Rangoon and Bombay responded most willingly. The second half of the paper explores the conditions, in both India and Ceylon, that made these segregated areas into scandalous sites in the early twentieth century. …”
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    Post-colonial transition, aid and the cold war in South-East Asia : Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962 by Foley, Matthew

    Published 2007
    “…Both believed that the provision of aid gave them some measure of influence over the government in Rangoon - that, in other words, their aid had some degree of coercive potential, somehow independent of the intentions or interests of the recipient state. …”
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    Status of female convicts under British colonial rule (Penal Settlement) in Andaman-India: An analysis by Biswas, Swapan Kumar

    Published 2014
    “…As a result many such unfortunate females either ended up in the brothels of Rangoon or Calcutta.…”
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