The reason that Britain did NOT occupy Malaysia and Burma was to control china from colonizing them instead.
British partitioned Burma from India in 1937 to dilute the Burmese nationalist movement. After World War II, under the supervision of U Aung San, this movement achieved its pinnacle, and Burma gained independence on January 4, 1948.
In 1937 the British government divided Burma from India and granted it its constitution, separate of that of India; the masses diagnosed this as proof that the British planned to exclude Burma from the new phase of Indian reform.
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