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A History Of Thailand

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by Baker Chris


  K. Hewison, Bankers and Bureaucrats: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 1989).

  P. Hirsch, Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990).

  F. Molle and Thippawal Srijantr, Thailand’s Rice Bowl: Perspectives on Agricultural and Social Change in the Chao Phraya Delta (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2003).

  R. Muscat, The Fifth Tiger: A Study of Thai Development Policy (New York: M. E. Sharpe and United Nations University Press, 1994).

  7: Ideologies, 1940s to 1970s

  Saiyud Kerdphol, The Struggle for Thailand: Counter-Insurgency, 1965–1985 (Bangkok: S. Research Center, 1986).

  D. Morell and Chai-Anan Samudavanija, Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1982).

  Kasian Tejapira, Commodifying Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture, 1927–1958 (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2001).

  Thongchai Winichakul, ‘Remembering/silencing the traumatic past: the ambivalent memories of the October 1976 massacre in Bangkok’, in Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes (eds), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).

  8: Globalization and mass society, 1970s onwards

  D. Arghiros, Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand (Richmond: Curzon, 2001).

  Andrew Brown, Labour Politics and the State in Industrializing Thailand (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).

  M. K. Connors, Democracy and National Identity in Thailand (New York and London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

  Anek Laothamatas, Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992).

  M. B. Mills, Thai Women in the Global Labour Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999).

  Bruce D. Missingham, The Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to National Protest Movement (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2003).

  Shigeharu Tanabe and C. F. Keyes (eds), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).

  Andrew Walker, Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

  9: A Political society, 1970s onwards

  W. A. Callahan, Imagining Democracy: Reading ‘The Events of May’ in Thailand (Singapore: ISEAS, 1998).

  Michael K. Connors and Kevin Hewison (eds), ‘Thailand’s “Good Coup”: The Fall of Thaksin, the Military, and Democracy’, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Asia 38, 1 (February 2008).

  Paul Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).

  Kevin Hewison (ed.), Political Change in Thailand: Democracy and Participation (London and New York: Routledge, 1997).

  Anek Laothamatas, ‘A tale of two democracies: conflicting perceptions of elections and democracy in Thailand’, in R. H. Taylor (ed.), The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  D. McCargo, Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics (London: Hurst, 1997).

  D. McCargo (ed.), Reforming Thai Politics (Copenhagen: NIAS, 2002).

  Duncan McCargo, ‘Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand’, Pacific Review 18, 4 (2005).

  Ruth McVey (ed.), Money and Power in Provincial Thailand (Copenhagen: NIAS, 2000).

  Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, Thaksin (2nd ed. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004).

  Kasian Tejapira, ‘Post-crisis economic impasse and political recovery in Thailand: the resurgence of economic nationalism’, Critical Asian Studies 34, 3 (2002).

  Naruemon Thabchumphon and Duncan McCargo, ‘Urbanized villagers in the 2010 Thai Redshirt protests’, Asian Survey 51, 9 (2011).

  Index

  1885 memorial 75–6

  1912 plot 110, 113

  1932 revolution 115–20, 131, 176, 241, 274

  Abeel, David 39

  Abhisit Vejjajiva 273, 278–9, 300

  absolutism 70, 108–11, 117, 131, 140

  Accelerated Rural Development programme 183, 223

  agriculture 81–3, 85, 155–7, 158–9, 204, 212–14

  air strikes 148

  Akanya Sutta 20

  Akat Damkoeng 107

  Akha 155

  Akorn Teng 92, 93

  Al Qaeda 231

  Amon Chantharasombun 256

  Anand Panyarachun 153, 249, 250, 256, 261, 300

  Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), King 120, 140, 141, 174, 175

  Anek Laothamatas 256

  Angkor 3, 11, 14, 48

  angyi 47, 65, 94, 129

  anti-communism legislation 117, 119, 144, 180, 252, 305

  Anu, Jao 27

  Anuman Rajadhon, Phya 177, 300

  Aphaiwanit, Luang 34, 96

  army 52, 60–1, 67, 75, 95, 110, 116, 123, 167–70, 183, 193, 194, 195, 223

  political power of 123–5, 141–8, 202, 203, 237–40, 248–53, 260, 273, 282

  Asdathon family 151

  Assembly of the Poor 219

  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 275

  Association of United Workers of Thailand 141, 180

  Atsani Pholajan 181

  automobile industry 151, 202, 204, 259

  Ava 11, 21, 22

  Ayutthaya 1, 8, 9, 10–23, 26, 71, 73, 165

  Bamrung Kayota 217

  Ban Phitsanulok advisory team 247

  bandits 47–8, 53, 60, 170

  Bang Rajan 127, 261

  Bangkok 1, 26, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 46, 80, 88–9, 91, 92, 93, 137, 148–9, 161, 199, 204, 214, 240, 241

  Bangkok Bank 151, 202, 262, 301, 302

  Bangrak quarter 100

  Banharn Silpa-archa 245, 248, 250, 255, 256, 300

  Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) 160, 213

  Bank of Asia 152

  Bank of Thailand 150, 205, 208, 255

  banking 91, 142, 151, 152, 153, 203, 205, 239, 258

  Bao Dai, Emperor 143

  beauty contests 123, 170, 207, 249

  Beijing 128, 144, 146, 182

  Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), King 141, 142, 175, 185, 186, 190, 194, 214, 238, 240–3, 249, 250, 260, 269, 300

  Black May (1992) 250, 251

  Board of Investment 150

  Boonchu Rojanastian 202, 301

  Boonrawd family 93, 107

  Border Patrol Police 148, 191, 194

  Borneo Company 89, 96, 100

  Borommakot, King 20, 26, 31, 76, 301

  Boworadet, Prince (and revolt) 119–20, 123, 180

  Bowring treaty 43–4, 48, 89

  Brahmans, Brahmanism 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 41

  Britain 13–14, 38, 44, 56–60, 63, 67, 89, 90, 136, 139, 172

  Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 181, 189, 301, 307

  Buddhism 7, 22, 40, 63, 65–6, 76, 106, 146, 161, 165, 171, 174, 176, 181–2, 184, 227–8, 229, 256

  and kingship 18–21, 31, 185, 241

  this-worldly 184, 189, 216

  see also Sangha; Sangha Acts

  budget bureau 150

  Bulakun family 93, 130

  Bulasuk family 93

  Bunnag family 29, 30, 36, 42, 44, 52, 76, 82, 308

  bureaucracy 95–6, 99, 109, 110, 160, 163, 170, 207, 209, 232, 247, 254

  Burma, Burmese 11, 21–3, 27, 28, 38, 51, 58, 64, 73, 75, 126, 127, 131, 134, 211, 215, 219, 254

  business associations 253

  Cambodia (Khmer country) 11, 27, 31, 41, 56, 58, 60, 63, 131, 134, 190, 195, 211

  Campaign for Popular Democracy (CPD) 249, 250

  canals 47, 58, 82, 83, 90, 158

  Canton 58, 92

  Cantonese 95
, 207

  Carabao band 225

  Caravan band 197, 225

  cartoons 109

  cassava 156, 157, 213

  central bank. See Bank of Thailand

  Central group 152, 205

  Chai-Anan Samudavanija 253, 256

  Chainat dam 158

  Chaisit Shinawatra 268

  chaiyaphum 6–8, 25

  Chakri dynasty 26, 29, 69, 70, 77

  Chamlong Srimuang 233, 248, 250, 269, 301

  Chanat Piyaoui 301

  Chanthaburi 89

  Chao Phraya River 1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 58, 142

  Charnvit Kasetsiri 206, 301

  Charoen Pokphand (CP) group 152, 206, 212, 249, 262, 303

  Charoen Siriwattanapakdi 153, 259

  Chart Kobjitti 222

  Chat Thai (Thai Nation) Party 190, 193, 243, 246, 300, 302

  Chatichai Choonhavan 243, 246–8, 254, 263, 268, 300, 302

  Chatikavanich family 96

  Chavalit Yongchaiyudh 238, 239, 255, 260, 263, 302

  Chi River 83, 159, 213

  Chiang Kai Shek 114

  Chiang Mai 7, 9, 22, 27, 46, 53, 55, 83, 158, 205, 213, 218, 223, 275

  Chiaravanon family 152

  Chin Sophonpanich 151, 301, 302

  China 9, 18, 44, 49, 56, 90, 113, 114, 128, 131, 136, 138, 143, 146, 151, 153, 181, 196, 206, 210, 211, 213

  Chinese Chamber of Commerce 95, 114, 129, 151

  Chinese community 93, 94–5, 101, 113–15, 122, 128–30, 144, 145, 146, 152–4, 205–7, 227, 244, 282

  Chinese culture 34–5

  Chinese migration 4, 5, 18, 25, 26, 27, 32–5, 46–51, 62, 81, 85, 152–4

  Chinese schools 95, 144, 145, 180

  Chirathiwat family 152, 205

  Chitra Konuntakiat 206

  Chokewatana family 152

  Chonburi 171, 301

  Chotikapukkana family 33, 34, 90

  Chotikasathian family 33

  Chua-Min Pao 180

  Chuan Leekpai 254, 278, 300, 302

  Chuang Bunnag 47, 51–2, 70, 74, 302

  Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King 30, 33, 34, 51–6, 63, 64, 65–73, 75–7, 82, 101, 104, 105, 138, 163, 164, 227, 282, 302

  Chulalongkorn University 95

  Chuthamani, Prince 36

  CIA 145, 147

  cinema 102, 106, 107, 124, 166, 208, 261

  Civil Service Commission 232

  Civil Service School 66, 67, 95

  Coca-Cola 150

  Cold War 138, 139, 143, 149, 165, 167, 184, 190, 191, 197, 236, 247, 277, 284

  communism 114, 117, 118, 139, 140, 143–5, 146, 154, 156, 167, 169, 179–84, 190, 193, 238, 239, 242, 277, 282

  Communist Manifesto 143

  Communist Party of Siam (Thailand) (CPT) 128, 144, 180, 186, 188, 195, 214, 238

  Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC) 183–4

  community culture movement 217

  Computer Crime Act 271

  Condominas, Georges 9

  Constitution Day 123

  Constitution Monument 123, 126, 303

  Constitutional Court 256

  constitutions 76, 105, 111, 117, 123, 147, 175, 190, 237, 239, 242, 243, 249, 253, 284

  (1932) 118, 122, 137, 142, 169, 237

  (1946) 139

  (1997) 232, 256–7, 259–60

  (2007) 271

  contract farming 220

  corvée labour 15, 41, 42, 51, 60, 161

  coups 78, 105, 119, 120, 123, 142, 146, 193, 195

  (1947) 141

  (1957) 147, 176, 181

  (1958) 147, 176

  (1971) 185

  (1976) 237, 238

  (1981, April Fools) 238

  (1991) 210, 222, 248–9

  (2006) 270–3, 307

  courts. See judicial system

  Crawfurd, John 32

  Crown Property Bureau 121, 164

  Damrong Rajanuphap, Prince 42, 53, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 72, 77, 85, 111, 138, 165, 175, 302

  dams 155, 158, 169, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 255

  de Lacouperie, Terrien 112

  debt, rural 87, 160, 188, 213, 218, 219, 261, 263

  Democrat Party 140, 142, 193, 243, 253–4, 260, 263, 267, 269, 272, 273, 278–80, 300, 302

  Democratic Soldiers group 238–9, 247, 302

  development 139, 149–54, 165, 167

  development plans 149, 150, 239, 256

  Dhammakai movement 228

  Dhani Nivat, Prince 174–5, 177, 242, 303

  Dhanin Chiaravanont 303

  Dhida Saraya 228

  Dilok Nabarath, Prince 87

  Dodd, W. C. 112

  Dokmaisot 107

  Don Muang airport 148

  Donovan, William 148

  drama 21, 34, 70, 125, 126–8, 129, 146, 206, 225

  drugs 170, 232, 250

  see also methamphetamine; opium

  Dusit quarter 100

  Dutch 13, 14, 18, 27, 81

  East Asiatic company 97, 100

  Eastern Seaboard 214, 247

  economic crisis (1997) 210, 212, 219, 257–62

  economic nationalism 129

  Economic Plan (Pridi) 119, 121

  education 65–6, 67, 74, 96, 108, 122, 150, 164, 171, 205, 207, 208, 213, 221–2, 253

  Eisenhower, Dwight 147

  Election Commission of Thailand 256

  elections 124, 142, 146, 147, 190, 193, 238, 239, 245, 246, 249, 250, 253, 256, 263, 267, 269, 272

  extraterritoriality 44, 48, 58, 62, 63, 113, 114, 122

  farang 36–41, 64, 67, 89, 98, 110, 113, 148

  Feroci, Corrado (Silpa Bhirasri) 126–7, 134, 303

  films. See cinema

  Fine Arts Department 125, 126, 241

  fisheries 130, 213, 215, 218, 219, 253

  flag, national 106

  forest 1, 4, 23, 53, 56, 80, 155, 156, 169, 183, 214–15, 217, 229, 230

  administration of 158, 171, 185, 218–19, 255

  forest goods 11, 28, 32, 42, 53

  forests 174

  France 13–14, 56–60, 62, 68, 90, 134

  Free Thai. See Seri Thai movement

  gambling 33, 39, 47, 51, 52, 65, 74, 90, 130, 170, 244

  Gedney, William 143

  gender 16, 43, 85, 101–2, 107, 161, 208, 211

  Germany 60, 87, 116, 124

  Grammy company 225

  Greater East Asian Conference 136

  Green Revolution 158, 159

  Haji Sulong Tomina 173, 231, 303

  Hakka 33

  Hanoi 58

  Headman Li 154

  health 5, 66, 101, 132, 155, 177, 212

  hill peoples 5, 64, 174, 177, 219, 230

  history 71–3, 75, 77, 107, 111–12, 137, 165, 171, 176, 188, 205, 224, 228, 237, 282–4

  Hitler, Adolf 124, 128, 131

  HIV (AIDS) 212

  Hmong 155, 174, 183

  Ho bands 58

  Hokkien 32, 33, 100, 114, 153

  Hong Kong 44, 88, 92, 93, 130, 204, 220

  Hunter, Robert 36, 40

  Iamsuri family 93

  identity (ID) card 171

  India, Indians 3, 10, 13, 19, 38, 44, 51, 53, 58, 62, 70, 89, 91, 100, 101

  industry. See manufacturing

  Interior Ministry 53, 170, 191, 236, 253

  Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) 191, 237, 238, 239, 240, 271, 273

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) 258, 260, 261, 263, 278

  investment, foreign 90, 150, 202, 258, 259

  irrigation 6, 158, 160, 177, 215, 220, 239

  Isan 55, 162, 172

  Islam. See Muslims

  jao pho 245

  jao sua 33–5, 90–1, 92, 93, 96, 102, 114

  Japan 13, 84, 102, 114, 124, 128, 134, 143, 181, 220

  and the Second World War 134–6, 138, 140

  as a model 74, 76, 108, 111, 202–3

  investment from 203–4, 223

  Japan–Siam Association 124

  Japanese goods, boycotts of 114,
128–9

  jataka tales 31, 41, 242

  Jatuporn Promphan 275

  Java 51, 81, 89, 100

  Jit Phumisak 143, 180, 182, 185, 188, 303

  Joey Boy 207

  Joni Odochao 217

  judicial system 55, 65, 121, 269, 271, 272, 273

  Julin Lamsam 130

  junk trade 15, 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 44, 89, 90, 92, 97

  Kader toy factory 211

  Kalyanamit family 33

  Kammachon band 197

  kamnan 157

  Karen 5, 155, 217, 228

  Kasian Tejapira 206

  Kasit Piromya 272

  Kavila 27

  Kedah 27, 63

  Kelantan 63, 230

  Khana ratsadon. See People’s Party

  Khaosai Galaxy 226

  Khmer 3, 4, 24, 28, 62, 64, 101, 126, 128, 131, 172

  Kho Jo Ko scheme 217

  Khon Kaen 55, 83

  Khorat 3, 5, 13, 27, 28, 29, 41, 53, 82, 83, 120, 155, 156, 172, 199, 226, 238, 246, 302, 304

  Khorat Plateau 3, 5, 27, 28, 29, 41, 82, 156

  Khrong Chandawong 172–3, 182, 304

  Khruba Siwichai 78

  Khun Chang Khun Phaen 16, 307

  King and I, The 147

  King Power company 259

  Korea 143, 144

  Korean War 151

  Korn Chatikavanij 278

  Koson Huntrakun 93, 107

  Krairiksh family 30, 33

  Kraisak Choonhavan 247

  Krathing daeng (Red Gaurs) 191, 194, 239

  Kriangsak Chomanand 196

  Krisna Asokesin 222

  Krue-se mosque 231

  Kui 5, 172

  Kukrit Pramoj 101, 140, 141, 163, 164, 189–90, 191, 193, 196, 197, 243, 247, 301, 304, 306

  Kulap Kritsananon (K. S. R. Kulap) 73–5, 76, 107, 303

  Kulap Saipradit 98, 107, 108, 109, 144, 181, 185, 304

  Kuomintang (KMT) 113, 114, 128, 130, 144

  labour, urban 93, 110, 122, 140, 141, 150, 161, 180, 188, 211–12, 218

  labour control 15, 38, 41–3, 60, 74

  labour legislation 146, 150, 188, 210

  Lampang 55, 63

  Lamphun 6, 55

  Lamsam family 93, 130, 152

  Lanchang 8, 9, 21

  land tax 85

  land titling 82, 83, 87, 158, 160

  landholding 5–6, 82–8, 146, 156, 159, 212

  Lanna 8, 9, 10, 13, 21, 22, 28, 39, 53, 55, 61, 66, 78, 89, 128

  Lao 5, 11, 13, 24, 27, 28, 31, 62, 63, 64, 100, 101, 127, 132, 172, 209

  Laos 131, 147, 148, 183, 190, 193, 211, 220

 

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