Korea, 1
Korea, South, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Korean War, 1, 2
Kosala, king of, 1
Kublai Khan, 1, 2
Kunming, 1, 2, 3
Kuomintang (KMT), 1, 2, 3;
see also China, Nationalist
Kuril Islands, 1
Kya Hseng, Sao, 1, 2
Kyaukmyaung, lord of, 1, 2
Kyaw Nyein, 1, 2
Kyaw Zan, 1
Kyi Maung, 1, 2
Labor Party, Israeli, 1
Labour Party, British, 1, 2, 3
Lambert, George, 1
Laos, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5;
opium trade in, 1
Lao states, 1, 2, 3, 4
Laski, Harold, 1
Law-Yone, Edward, 1, 2
League of Nations, 1, 2, 3, 4
Lee Kuan Yew, 1, 2
Legislative Council, Burmese, 1, 2, 3
Leonowens, Anna, 1
Lesser River (Myit-ngè), 1, 2
Lewis, Norman, 1
Liberal party, British, 1, 2, 3
Li Mi, 1, 2
Lion Throne, 1
Lisbon, 1, 2
Lo Hsing-Han, 1, 2, 3, 4
London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Lon Nol, 1
Louis XIV, king of France, 1
Louis XV, king of France, 1
Lower Burma, 1, 2, 3
Luang Prabang, king of, 1
Lucknow, 1, 2
Madagascar, 1
Madras, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Maha Mindin Minkyaw Raza, 1
Maha Mindin Thinkaya (Mya Yit), 1, 2, 3
Maha Minhla Kyawhtin, 1
Maha Minkyaw Raza, 1
Maha Nawrata, 1
Maha Naymyo, 1
Maha Sithu, 1
Maha Tharaphu, 1
Maha Thiha Thura, 1, 2
Mahayana Buddhism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Bertrand François, Comte, 1
Mahmud of Ghazni, 1
Makertich, T. M., 1
Malacca, 1, 2, 3
malaria, 1, 2, 3
Malaya, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Malay Peninsula, 1
Malaysia, 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
Malwaris, 1, 2
Manchuria, 1, 2, 3, 4
Manchus, 1, 2, 3;
invasion by, 1, 2
Mandalay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39;
British Resident at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
fall of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
rebel takeover of, 1, 2;
as royal city, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;
in World War II, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Manipur, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Burmese invasions of, 1, 2, 3
Mao Tse-tung, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Marco Polo, 1, 2
Marlborough, seventh duke of, 1
Martaban, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
prince of, 1
Marxism, 1, 2, 3, 4
Maubin, 1, 2, 3
Maung Hlwa, 1
Maung Thant, 1, 2
Maxim, Hiram, 1
Maymyo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
May Oung, 1, 2
McCartney, Sir George, 1
Mecca, 1, 2
Meiji restoration, 1
Meiktila, 1, 2
Mekkaya: chief of, 1;
lord of, 1;
prince of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mekong River, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mello, Diego Soarez de, 1
Me Nu, Queen, 1
Mergui, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mesopotamia, 1
Middle Palace queen, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mi Hkin-gyi, 1
militias, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Millard, Pierre de, 1, 2
Mindon, king of Burma, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
heirs of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
political reforms of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mingaladon Air Base, 1, 2
Mingaladon Airport, 1, 2, 3
Mingyi Maha Minhla Mingkaung, 1
Mingyi Maha Minhla Raza, 1
Mingyi Maha Minhla Zeyyathu, 1
Mingyi Maha Minkaung, 1
Mingyi Maha Minkaung Nawrata, 1
Mingyi Minkaung Mindin Raza, 1
Mingyi Thiri Maha Zeyya Kyawdin, 1
Minhla Mingaung Kyaw, 1
Minkyaw Zeya Thura, 1
Mir Jumla, 1
Mirza Jamshed Bakht, Prince, 1
Mirza Jawan Bakht, Prince, 1
Mirza Muhammad Bedar Bakht, 1
missionaries, American, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mitsubishi Electric, 1
Mogaung, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Moksobo, 1, 2, 3
Moluccas, the, 1
Mongko, 1
Mongkut, king of Siam, 1, 2
Mongmit, 1, 2, 3
Mongmit, prince of, 1
Mongnai, 1, 2
Mongolia, 1;
Inner, 1
Mongols, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mongsi, lord of, 1
Mon-Khmer people, 1
Mon language, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mon National Liberation Army, 1
Mons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
monsoons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Montagu, Lord Edwin, 1, 2
Morocco, 1
Moulmein, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Mountbatten, Lord Louis “Dickie,” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mozambique, 1, 2
Mrauk-U, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mughal empire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Mumtaj Mahal, 1
Mu River, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Muslim League, 1, 2, 3
Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue, 1
Mutaguchi, Renya, 1
Myanma people, 1, 2
Myanmar, Union of, 1;
name change to, 1
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, 1
Mya Sein, 1
Mya Yi, 1
Mya Yit, (Maha Mindin Thinkaya), 1
Myedu, king of Burma, 1
Myingun, princes of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Myingyan, fort at, 1
Myinhkondaing, prince of, 1
Myinzaing, prince of, 1
Myitkyina, 1, 2, 3
Myothit, myoza (lord) of, 1, 2
Mysore, 1
Nagarjuna, 1
Nagasaki, 1
Naga Sandi, 1
Nanda Baya, 1
Nanking, 1, 2
Nan Thaung, 1
Nanzhao Empire, 1, 2, 3, 4
Napoleon I, emperor of France, 1, 2
Naramithla, king of Arakan, 1
narcotics, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Nasruddin of Bukhara, 1
Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 1, 2
Nation, 1, 2
National Convention, 1
National League for Democracy (NLD), 1, 2, 3, 4
National Press Club, 1
National Unity Party, 1
Natshinnaung, 1
Naymyo Mindin Thurayn, 1
Naymyo Theiddi Kyawtin, 1
Naymyo Thihapati, 1
Naymyo Thiri Kyawtin Nawrata, 1
Negrais, 1, 2, 3n
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Nepal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Netherlands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Newaz, Gharib, 1
New Burma, 1, 2, 3
Newcastle, 1
New Delhi, 1, 2, 3, 4
Newfoundland, 1
Ne Win, 1;
assassination plot against, 1;
background and personality of, 1, 2;
in Burma Independence Army, 1, 2;
consolidation of power by, 1;
death of, 1;
democracy urged by, 1, 2;
dictatorship of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
first military coup by, 1;
insurgency combatted by, 1, 2, 3;
Japanese collaboration of, 1;
marriages of, 1, 2, 3;
nightclubs shut by, 1, 2;
1988 democracy movement and, 1, 2;
one-party system of, 1;
in Rangoon party scene, 1, 2;
second military coup of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
socialism of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Student Union building destroyed by, 1, 2;
United States visit of, 1;
U Thant’s funeral and, 1;
xenophobia and isolationism of, 1, 2
Newkirk, John Van Kuren “Scarsdale Jack,” 1
New Zealand, 1
Ngo Dinh Diem, 1
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
Nineteenth Indian Division, 1, 2
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1
Nobel Peace Prize, 1, 2, 3
Non-Aligned Movement, 1
Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, 1
North Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4
Northern Illinois University, Burma Studies Center at, 1
North Vietnam, 1, 2
Norway, 1, 2, 3
Nu, U, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
background and personality of, 1;
and Communist insurgencies, 1;
democracy under, 1, 2, 3, 4;
forced resignation of, 1, 2;
in independence movement, 1, 2;
insurgent group lead by, 1;
international diplomacy of, 1;
as prime minister, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
return to power of, 1;
socialism and, 1, 2, 3;
U Thant’s friendship with, 1, 2, 3, 4
Nyaung-U, 1, 2
Nyaungyan, prince of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Office of Strategic Services, American, 1, 2, 3
officer corps, hereditary, 1, 2
oil, 1, 2, 3, 4
On Kya, Sao, 1
opium, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
“Origins and Character of the Burmese People” (McNamara), 1
Orwell, George, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ottoman Empire, 1, 2, 3
Oxford University, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pagan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
empire centered at, 1, 2, 3;
lord of, 1;
medieval ruins at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pakhan, lord of, 1
Pakhannge, lord of, 1
Pakistan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Palestine, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pali, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pamirs, 1
Panchala, king of, 1
Panglong, 1, 2
Pangsang, 1, 2
Pangsau Pass, 1
Pantanaw, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Pantanaw National School, 1
Panthay Rebellion, 1, 2
Panthays, 1, 2, 3
Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4
Park Chung Hee, 1
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1, 2
Pascal Khoo Thwe, 1
Pathans, 1, 2
Pathet Lao, 1
Paukmyaing, lord of, 1
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 1, 2
Pearse, Patrick, 1
Pegu, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
kingdom at, 1
Pegu Club, 1, 2, 3
Pegu Mountains, 1, 2
Peking, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Peninsular War, 1
People’s Liberation Army, Chinese, 1, 2, 3
People’s Volunteer Organization, 1, 2, 3
Persia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Phayre, Sir Arthur, 1, 2
pheromones, 1
Pheung Kya-shin, 1
Phibun Songkhram, 1
Philippines, 1, 2n
Phuket, 1, 2
Pindalay, King, 1
Pindalay, lord of, 1
Po Hnit, 1, 2, 3
Poland, 1
Pol Pot, 1
Pondicherry, 1, 2, 3
Portugal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
mercenaries from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
sea power of, 1
Prendergast, Sir Harry North Dalrymple, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Prendergast, Thomas, 1
press, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Burmese, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
international coverage of Burma in, 1;
restrictions on,
press (cont.) 1, 2, 3;
U Thant as member of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah Devand, 1
Prome, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Prome, prince of, 1
Provisional Government of Burma, 1
Prussia, 1, 2
Pu’er Prefecture, 1
Punjab, 1, 2
Pu Yi, Henry (The Last Emperor), 1, 2, 3
Pyidawtha (Pleasant Land), 1
Pyinmana, 1, 2, 3;
prince of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Qianlong emperor (Aishin Gioro), 1
Quebec, 1
race theory, racism, 1, 2
railways, 1, 2, 3
Rajadhammasangaha (“Treatise on
Righteous Government”) (Yaw), 1, 2
Ranauq Zamani Begum, Princess, 1
Rance, Sir Hubert, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rangoon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51;
British occupation of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23;
nationalist mass meetings in, 1;
1988 democracy demonstrations in, 1, 2;
in World War II, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Rangoon Gymkhana Club, 1, 2, 3
Rangoon Institute of Technology, 1
Rangoon University, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Ratchaburi General Hospital, 1
Ratnagiri, 1
Rawalpindi, 1, 2
Raza Datu Kalayani, 1
Red Army, 1
Red Flag Communists, 1, 2
Red Guards, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rees, Abraham, 1
Reform Act of 1884, 1
refugees, 1, 2;
Burmese, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
wartime, 1, 2, 3, 4
Revolutionary Council, Burmese, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Ribeyro, Salvador, 1
rice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Rice, Condoleezza, 1
Richmond, Wally, 1
Ripon, marquess of, 1, 2
Rodriguez, Sebastian, 1
Roman Catholicism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Roman Empire, 1, 2, 3;
eastern, 1
Rommel, Erwin, 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2
Rowe and Co., 1, 2
Royal Laotian Army, 1
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 1
Russell, Bertrand, 1
Russia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Japanese war with, 1;
Revolution in, 1, 2
Saigon, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sakiyan clan, 1, 2
Salay, lord of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Saldaña, Doña Luisa de, 1, 2
Saldanha, Dom Aires de, 1
Salin, 1, 2
Salisbury, earl of, 1, 2
Salween River, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Samarkand, 1, 2
San C. Po, 1, 2
Sanda Thudamma, king of Arakan, 1
Sanphet Prasat, 1
San Po Thin, 1
Sanskrit, 1, 2
Sarit Thanarat, 1
Sarnath, 1, 2
Sato Eisaku, 1
Saw, U, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Saya San, 1, 2, 3
Scotland, Scots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Scott, Sir George, 1
Scott, Sir James, 1
Sein Lwin “the Lion,” 1, 2
Seixas, Paolo, 1
Seleucus Nicator, 1
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Seven Years’ War, 1, 2, 3
Shan Chiefs School, 1, 2
Shan hills, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Shan language, 1, 2
Shan people, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
British government of, 1;
on Executive Council, 1;
uprisings by, 1, 2, 3
Shan plateau, 1, 2, 3
Shan State Army, 1, 2
Shan States, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
martial law in, 1
Shan uplands, 1, 2
Sharett, Moshe, 1
Shaw, George Bernard, 1
Shayista Khan, 1
Sher Ali, 1
Shiite Muslims, 1, 2
Shuja, Shah, 1
Shwebo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Shwedagon Pagoda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Shwe Khin, 1, 2
Siam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18;
Burmese aggression against, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
see also Thailand
Siberia, 1
Sichuan, 1, 2
Sikhs, 1, 2, 3
Silk Road, 1
Simla, 1, 2, 3
Simon, Sir John, 1
Simon Commission, 1
Singapore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10
Singh, Jai, 1
Singhal, 1, 2
Singu, 1
Singu, prince of, 1, 2
Singuttara Hill, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sinn Fein, 1, 2
Sino-Burmese border agreement of 1960, 1
Sinyetha (Poor Man’s Party), 1
Sittang, lord of, 1
Sladen, Sir Edward, 1, 2, 3
slavery, slave trade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Slim, Sir William, 1, 2, 3
Smim Htaw, king of Pegu, 1
Smith Dun, 1, 2
soccer, 1, 2
socialists, socialism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Ne Win’s endorsement of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
U Nu and, 1, 2, 3
Soe, Thakin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Solomon, King, 1
Somme, battle of the, 1
Sophaer, David, 1
South Africa, 1, 2, 3
Southeast Asia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 14, 15;
France in, 1
South-East Asia Theatre, 1
South Korea, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
South Vietnam, 1, 2
Soviet Union, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
aid to Burma from, 1, 2;
interventions in Burma by, 1
Spain, 1, 2, 3, 4;
mercenaries from, 1, 2
Spanish civil war, 1, 2
Spears, Sir Thomas, 1
Sri Lanka, see Ceylon
Sri Vijaya kingdom, 1
Stalingrad, 1, 2
State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), 1, 2
steamships, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Steel, William Strang, 1
Steel Brothers, 1
Stilwell, Joseph “Vinegar Joe,” 1
Story of the League of Nations, The—Told for Young People (Thant), 1
Strachey, John, 1, 2
Straits of Malacca, 1, 2, 3, 4
Straits Settlements, 1
Strand Hotel, 1, 2, 3
strikes, 1, 2, 3, 4;
government general, 1, 2
student protests, 1, 2, 3, 4;
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