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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458456503321

Autore

Aung-Thwin Maitrii

Titolo

The return of the Galon king [[electronic resource] ] : history, law, and rebellion in colonial Burma / / by Maitrii Aung-Thwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-89680-470-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; ; no. 124

Disciplina

959.1/04

Soggetti

Anti-imperialist movements - Burma - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Burma History Peasant Uprising, 1930

Burma Trials, litigation, etc History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Textualizing rebellion : remembering kings and an ethnology of revolt -- Legislating rebellion : ethnology and the formation of counter-insurgency law -- Adjudicating rebellion : the trial of Saya San and the authentication of the narrative -- Codifying rebellion : the origins and causes of the Burma rebellion -- Interpreting rebellion : binary structures and colonial remains -- Sanctifying rebellion : colonial discourses, religion, and millenarian movements -- Remembering rebellion : museums, monks, and the military.

Sommario/riassunto

In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history. Considered an imposter by the British, a hero by nationalists, and a prophet-king by area-studies specialists, Saya San came to embody traditional Southeast Asia's encounter with European colonialism in his attempt to resurrect the lost throne of Burma.  The Return of the Galon King analyzes the legal origins of the