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(On the Road to) Mandalay is a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, in 1892. The road it refers to is the 700 km (each way) trip up & down the Irrawady river taken by British troops stationed in Burma, a British colony from 1885 to 1948.

The Mandalay referred to in this poem was then capital city of Burma.It mentions the old Moulmein pagoda, which is the Anglicized name of present-day Mawlamyine.

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