A militant student led movement arose and called themselves thakins which meant lords and became a "symbol of youthful defiance of British rule". 4The ethnic people, such as the Karens, who feared for ethnic Burman domination of nationalism, sided with the British polices. ...
In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any pr...
