“Emerging situations in Myanmar require proactive responses from India”, First Post, January 20, 2024:

“The pace of unfolding events on our eastern borders with Myanmar is fast evolving and needs a closer look by Indian decision-makers. Sharing close to 1600 km of borders with India, Myanmar is at one of the critical points of its nationhood, growth, and survival, all three of which are substantially mixed at this juncture.

Myanmar, the name it adopted from its erstwhile name of Burma with effect from June 18, 1989, has been under British India as early as 1886 onwards. Except for the short duration during World War II when it came under Japanese occupation, it continued to remain part of British India. It got some kind of separate geographical identity in 1937 but became independent only on January 4, 1948, from the British as a follow-up to the Burma Independence Act passed by the British Parliament on December 10, 1947.

Both the Independence Acts as well as the grant of independence to Myanmar (then Burma) were later in time frame as compared to the Indian Independence Act, which was passed on July 18, 1947, and Indian independence, which was granted on August 15, 1947…..”

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