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Since September 18, 1989, the country known for many generations as Burma has been renamed twice, informally as the Union of Burma and formally as Myanmar, by the present military government of General Saw Maung.1 The name Union of Burma was originally and constitutionally given by the U Nu government in 1948 when Burma attained independence from British rule. It was retained until 1974 by the Revolutionary Council government of General Ne Win, at which time the country was officially christened the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. This essay will attempt to travel a historical Burma road from the Union of Burma to Myanmar. The main purpose of this journey is to analyze and evaluate the backward and forward linkages of Burmese polities in terms of the interrelationships between the traditional Burmese |
