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U Ottama's Counsel to
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...Attempts should be made to become conversant with the
Indian penal code and the British Administration so that
they (sangha) may teach these to laymen...Rural
Administration Acts and the like should be thoroughly
mastered and such knowledge should be communicated to the
peasants so that they may be enlightened upon the fact that
their labors are lost and abused by irresponsible government
officials. Sanghas should do research in the
comparative study of government, such as the extent and
amount collected on land tax, poll tax, municipal tax, and
other taxes. They should record how much government enjoys
from the Excise Department yearly (on controlled drugs) as
against the increase of opium and alcoholic addicts each
year and what amount the government collects in taxes on
fisheries and meat meat vendors each year, on the tons of
rice and timber, liters of crude oil, kerosene, and
petroleum and loads of ores like silver and other precious
stones that are exported, how much it figures in foreign
exchange and currency for such valuables as are exported and
what cost for the same received; what portion of the income
is invested in the advancement of Education and Health of
the people and what amount is expended in the Police
Department, Agriculture Department and departments for
general development of the country. Death rates too should
be closely studied. Those various points stated above and
the like (supposedly) studied in 1910 A.D should be compared
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Reference
Solomon, R.L.
(1963). Saya San and the Burmese rebellion. Modern Asian
Studies, 3(3), 223. |
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