History of Myanmar's labour movement (p22/505)

This post presents page 22 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

သွတ်သွင်း ။ to include
စီရင် ။ to pass judgement
လိုလား ။ want, need
သူရဲကောင်း ။ hero
ပုန်ကန် ။ to rebel against authority
တိုင်တိုင် ။ "up to", "as many as"
ငြိမ်ဝပ် ။ (of people) to be still, quiet, calm
ပိပြား ။ to be prim, demure
အမည်ခံ ။ a person in title only; nominal status; figurehead; to assume a name
အကြီးအကဲ ။ leader, chief, person in authority
မယ်မယ်ရရ ။ specifically, precisely
အတိုင်ပင်ခံ ။ adviser, consultant
ဘုရင်ခံ ။ governor
လှုံ့ဆော် ။ to stimulate, exhort, egg on
နိုးကြား ။ to become, active, alert, vigilant, watchful
ဂယက် ။ repercussions
နှစ်သိမ့် ။ to console, comfort
လှည့်စား ။ deceive; play one false

Translation:

[...they made it a part of India] by including it under Indian control and administering it directly. The viceroy and his subordinate officials were delegated administrative and judicial powers, which they carried out in practice. In doing that, since [the British] were not able to maintain a calm and sedate situation due to the resistance and rebellion of the Myanmar nationalist heroes who did not at all want and were not at all fond of the imperialists' administration, it cannot be said that [the British] were able to get effective control.

Although 9 representatives were appointed in 1897 to form a formal governing council, that council was not invested with the power to do anything specifically, and a separate advisory council of the viceroys had authority over administration.

In 1909, although the number of representatives in the formal council was raised from 9 to 15 in accordance with the Minto-Morley Scheme, there were only 4 Myanmar people. Again in 1915, the number of representatives was raised from 15 to 28, of whom 26 people were appointed by the governor. In that [council], there were 12 officials, 5 other nationalities and 9 Myanmar people.

In 1908, the Myanmar people, who had become active because of the agitation of the Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA) that had been formed by modern educated Myanmar youths, established a large Myanmar federation (the General Council of Buddhist Associations) in 1920 and then because of the nationalist movements that expanded under the leadership of monastic organisations, wunthanu associations and kumari associations and the repercussions of the influence of the Yangon University students' boycotts against the colonial education system in 1920, the British government could not just stay without responding, [and so] it reformed and expanded the governor and the formal council in 1923 with a new Myanmar administrative system in order to be able to comfort and deceive the people [of Myanmar].