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Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation is a company founded in 1863 by the Wallace brothers in Bombay, which became the largest extractor of teak in Burma. In 1885 the court of King Thibaw imposed a heavy fine on it for under-reporting timber, and the dispute served as a pretext for the Third Anglo-Burmese War and the British annexation of Upper Burma. It is now part of the Wadia Group in India.
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