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This dissertation is a research study on the Administration of Lower Myanmar (1852-1885). By 1952, the begining of this doctoral research study, Tanintharyi Division, the Rakhine Division and the Bago Division were already under British Governance. The Tainintharyi was administered under the administrative system experimented and stabilized in the Indian provinceswhich was colonized much earlier than Tanintharyi. In the administration of justice Calutta judicial practice with its litigation procedures were imposed in the Tanintharyi judicial courts. The rationable of British colonial system throughout its vast colonies was based on the two major priority policy primises, namely, first: rule of law, and second: collection of revenue. Administration in the Rakhine Division, due to its proximity with the Bengal province of the Indian Coloniy, was adopted along the Bengali system. The Indisn laws and procedures were directly applied in the Rakhine Division, In the assessment and collection of revenue, those which were not prescribed or collected during the reign of Myanmar Kings, were levied and collected by the brithish administration. Administration of the Bago Division immediately following the British occupation was controlled directly by the Governor-General of India, assigning a high ranking British official designated as the Commissioner of the Bago Division to carry out the field administration of Bagon. In 1862 when the three divisions of Brithish Lower Myanmar were merged, to form the British Burma(Myanmar), only one Chief Comissioner was assigned to the centralized administrative functions. In the administration of justice, the Indian Laws were the mainstay of the British Myanmar judicial practice. With regard to the collection of revenue in British Lower Myanmar, their primary objective was to exact as much revenue as possible from the colonized taxpayers. The revenue earnings were not necessarily spent for the welfare of the subjugated people, but were channeled for administration, maintenance of law and orde,r and rule of law in their extended colonies. The set up of the colonial administrative machinery was highly centralized, modeled on bureaucratic hierarchy. PhD University of Mandalay 2010.

Included bibliography.

Introduction
Chapters
1. Administration in Tanintharyi and Rakhine Divesion before 1852
2. Administration in Taninthary Division (1852-85)
3. Administration in Rakhine Division (1852-85)
4. Administration in Bago Division (1852-85)
Conclusion.