History of Myanmar's labour movement (p23/505)

This post presents page 23 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

ပြိုကွဲ ။ disintegrate; become disunited; be broken up
အချက်အချာ ။ central point; strategic point, position, etc; anything basic, pivotal or of primary importance
ကိုင်တွယ် ။ handle, manage, tackle
ရေးရာ ။ affairs, matters relating to something
စွက်ဖက် ။ to meddle, interfere
တားမြစ် ။ forbid, prohibit
ပြင်းထန် ။ to be strong, intense
လှည့်စား ။ to deceive
ပရိယာယ် ။ synonym; oblique or indirect reference; stratagem; deception; ruse
သွေးကွဲ ။ different (race); to have bad blood between
အမျိုးသားရေး ။ national affairs

Translation:

That new administrative system caused a split in the Myanmar federation of associations which had became active in politics. Although there were 103 members in the formal parliament, only 70 of these members of parliament were elected by popular vote, while the remaining 33 were directly appointed by the governor. In the governor's administrative council (the government) only 2 people were allowed to be elected from the formal organisation, and while designating only the two spots of education minister and forestry minister [for these 2 elected officials] from among the education department, health department, agricultural department, forestry department, and the public works department, the strategic ministries such as defence, finance, taxation and peace (the interior ministry and justice ministry) were kept under the control of the governor and administrative responsibility for them was given to 2 senior British officials appointed by the governor who were members of the governor's advisory council. Although the formal parliament had legislative power, in the governor's hand, from one side the cabinet took power and from another side the formal council was prohibited from interfering in anyway with matters related to the departments that were administered by the governor himself. That administrative system was called the Diarchy System. Other than that, 2 Upper Parliament Representatives (Members of the Legislative Council) from Myanmar were allowed to be elected to the Indian Legislative Parliament.

In 1930, due to intense nationalist movements such as the emergence of the Bamar-Indian riots and the Saya San farmer rebellion, the British government responded to the situation by holding a referendum to creating a deception about the problem of Myanmar splitting with India or not. At a minimum, this was a strategy to bring about national dangers among the Myanmar people such as disunity, animosity and enmity amongst each other in accordance with the imperialists' divide-and-rule policy. In order to decide about the aforementioned dividing or joining [with India] a general...