The Making of Modern Burma

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction: The fall of Mandalay......Page 11
1 Kings and distant wars......Page 22
Bodawpaya and western campaigns......Page 23
The British and the Burmese......Page 27
The end of empire......Page 30
2 The Irrawaddy valley in the early nineteenth century......Page 34
People and population......Page 35
Kinship and social organisation......Page 37
The gentry......Page 44
Markets, merchants and money-lenders......Page 50
The religions of the Irrawaddy valley......Page 58
3 The Court of Ava......Page 63
The Golden City......Page 64
The Lord of All Umbrella-Bearing Chiefs......Page 66
The last royal family......Page 69
The royal household......Page 74
The royal agencies......Page 75
The Burmese nobility......Page 78
Monks and bankers......Page 83
Governing the countryside......Page 85
History and origins......Page 89
A Burmese country?......Page 93
War and identity......Page 100
Expansion and information......Page 104
Thinking about Wilayat......Page 108
5 The grand reforms of King Mindon......Page 114
Pressures for change......Page 115
Mindon and his government......Page 117
Mindon's modernisations......Page 122
Refashioning the state......Page 125
A fiscal revolution......Page 128
Mandalay and Calcutta......Page 135
Princes and rebels......Page 140
Establishing an informal empire......Page 145
The changing structure of foreign trade......Page 152
An exemplary centre......Page 158
7 Reformists and royalists at the court of King Thibaw......Page 164
The coup d’état of 1878......Page 166
Policies and practices of the Thibaw government......Page 173
Collapsing royal authority......Page 181
Explaining the crisis of the Burmese state......Page 188
The road to Mandalay......Page 196
The resistance......Page 208
The colonial state......Page 217
The search for local intermediaries......Page 220
9 A colonial society......Page 229
Places and peoples......Page 230
A British market......Page 232
Changing the countryside......Page 237
The impact on local communities......Page 245
From kingdom to nation......Page 250
Conclusion: The making of modern Burma......Page 255
The last stand of a non-European autonomy......Page 257
Burma contra India......Page 261
Reinterpreting modern Burmese history......Page 263
Pre-colonial Burmese sources in translation......Page 265
Government of India official publications: settlement reports......Page 266
Government of India official publications: other......Page 267
Pre-colonial and early colonial published sources in English......Page 268
Published secondary sources in Burmese......Page 270
Unpublished secondary sources in English......Page 271
Published secondary sources in English......Page 272
Index......Page 282