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university, Rangoon, Myanmar

Also known as: Rangoon College

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history of Myanmar

  • Myanmar

    In Myanmar: The emergence of nationalism

    Also in 1920 Rangoon College was raised to the status of a full university by the University Act. However, because the accompanying changes in the school’s administration and curriculum were viewed as elitist and exclusionary of the Burmese population, its students went on strike. Younger schoolchildren followed suit,…

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