Conquest and Concession
The Case of the Burma Ruby Mines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3635563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Vicat Turrell (Commonwealth Education Trust, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-163 |
| Publication date | 1988-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00009446 |
| OpenAlex | W1988940094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
A compelling vignette of the use of political influence for private gain in the expansion of the British empire is provided by the way King Thebaw' s legendary ruby mines in Upper Burma were acquired by British speculators in the late 1880s. The details of how the ruby-mine concession was awarded to a syndicate soon after Upper Burma was annexed to Britain in 1886 are not well known, although the concesion-mongering created a furore in the India Office and the House of Commons. There was even, at the time, a suggestion that the rubymine affair infleunced Lord Dufferin's decision to resign as Viceroy in 1888
Ancient history · CONQUEST · Economic history · Empire · House of Commons · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Syndicate · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |