Thank you for your input, as you say the identification is tentative, but I am sure that further research will rule it in or out. The BIA flag in the wikipedia link has the same stylised peacock and your armband clearly shows that the peacock formed part of the BIA uniform.
The armband must be a particularly scarce item to find, probably only worn between 1942 and late 1944 when the tide began to go out for the Japanese in Burma. A very nice find.
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