| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Parimal Ghosh. Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825–1932. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2000. Pp. 197. $35.00.

Burma was not central to the British Raj, added in bits over some sixty years, and never reliably "pacified." Compared to the now enormous and sophisticated literature on the British period in India, Burma's place in the historiography of the British Empire is modest. Careful studies of aspects of the Anglo-Burmese encounter are therefore welcome. Parimal Ghosh's short monograph is such a contribution. That Burma always presented problems in "imperial policing," every reader of George Orwell knows. Ghosh helps us to understand why—and perhaps also to understand Orwell's obviously conflicted view of Buddhist monks. . . .

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