1930 Rangoon riots

Race riots between Indians and Burmans 1930 Rangoon riots Barr Street Jetty and Rangoon River 1930.jpg Barr Street Jetty and Rangoon River, 1930 26 May and 24 June 1930 Rangoon, Burma Province, British India 16 51 N 96 11 E Disputes over wages and labor rights Higher wages, higher employment Striking, rioting Indian dockworkers Burman labourers Cameron Highlanders Non-centralized leadership Non-centralized leadership King George V(Colonel-in-Chief)Maj-Gen. Neville John Gordon Cameron(Colonel of the Regiment) 120–200+ killed900–2,000 injured Unknown Unknown The 1930 Rangoon riots were a pair of race riots between Indian dockworkers and Burman labourers. The first broke out on 26 May near the Rangoon docks. It spread to nearby districts with high Indian populations and resulted in over one hundred killed and about one thousand injured.King 2008 71 The second, a prison riot, began on 24 June in Rangoon Central Jail, where the staff was predominantly Indian and the inmates overwhelmingly Burman.Brown 2013 57–58 The riots were overshadowed by the rise of Bamar Nationalism, Dobamar Asiyone and the Sayar San Rebellion.Brown 2013 57–58 In early May 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, Indian dockworkers in Rangoon went on strike for increased wages. Burman labourers were brought in to break the strike, but the port became congested. An agreement was reached with the Indians to raise their wages, whereupon the Burmans were dismissed. As they returned to work the Indians jeered the outgoing Burmans and violence ensued. For days Burman mobs, often composed of toughs imported from other neighbourhoods, roamed about for Indians, who barricaded themselves in their homes and, in one case, in the local lunatic asylum. Order was only restored when the Rangoon garrison, the Cameron Highlanders, was sent in.Brown 2013 57–58 According to British colonial government sources, roughly 120 people of Indian origin were killed and more than 900 were injured. However, more recent analyses estimate that more than 200 were killed and 2,000 injured.Egreteau Renaud Burma (Myanmar) 1930-2007 https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/printpdf/2864 19 October 2009 Mass Violence and Resistance - Research Network SciencePo 19 March 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170824062153/http://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/printpdf/2864 24 August 2017 dead The majority of all killed and wounded was Indian.Brown 2013 57–58 During the riot, pro-Burman students and nationalists formed Dobamar Asiyone, which will dominant the modern history of Myanmar. The riot in the jail was a lesser mirror image of the dockyard riots. The Indian prison staff killed, mainly by gunshot, 34 inmates (out of 2,000) and injured 60 others.Brown 2013 57–58 Notes References Ian Brown Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013 Nalini Ranjan Chakravarti The Indian Minority in Burma: The Rise and Decline of an Immigrant Community https://archive.org/details/indianminorityin0000chak registration London Oxford University Press 1971 978-0-19-218194-7 The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region Victor T. King 2008 NIAS Copenhagen The Rangoon Jail Riot of 1930 and the Prison Administration of British Burma Warren James South East Asia Research 10 1 2002 5–29 10.5367/000000002101296991 147140132 Category:Race riots Rangoon riots Category:Indian diaspora in Myanmar Rangoon riots Rangoon riots Category:20th century in Yangon Rangoon riots Category:Riots and civil disorder in Myanmar Category:Labour disputes in Myanmar Rangoon riots Category:Discrimination in Myanmar Category:Prison riots in Asia Category:Great Depression Category:Anti-Indian sentiment in Asia Rangoon riots Category:20th-century mass murders in Asia Category:Mass murders in Myanmar 1930