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Under British colonial rule (1886-1948), many Burmese students chose to go abroad for schooling due to a lack of educational resources at home. As Burma was then a province of the British Indian Empire, they often traveled to India, where they made connections beyond their homeland and questioned what it might mean to be “Burmese” within the British Empire. In my research, I explore how some Burmese students’ dissatisfaction with Indian education led them to articulate a new ideal of Western-style “national education” for Burma. In the process, colonized students strategically defined how to be both a nationalist and an imperial subject through debates about colonial educational reform.
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