Manchester University Press
5 Conflict and betrayal
Abstract
After her victory in the 2015 elections, Aung San Suu Kyi announced a plan of reconciliation after decades of ethnic conflict in Myanmar. In 1947 her father had attempted a similar plan, culminating in the Panglong Agreement signed in London with Clement Attlee and the Panglong Conference held in the town of that name in the Shan States. This chapter examines the historical and cultural background to these negotiations from the point of view of the minority Shan people and their rulers. It reveals how the Shan reacted to the tensions and conflicts that surrounded the signing and why they felt that the British failed them.
Abstract
After her victory in the 2015 elections, Aung San Suu Kyi announced a plan of reconciliation after decades of ethnic conflict in Myanmar. In 1947 her father had attempted a similar plan, culminating in the Panglong Agreement signed in London with Clement Attlee and the Panglong Conference held in the town of that name in the Shan States. This chapter examines the historical and cultural background to these negotiations from the point of view of the minority Shan people and their rulers. It reveals how the Shan reacted to the tensions and conflicts that surrounded the signing and why they felt that the British failed them.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- Notes on contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiii
- 1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia 1
- 2 All the king’s men 22
- 3 Decolonised rulers 44
- 4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire 60
- 5 Conflict and betrayal 80
- 6 Malaysia’s multi-monarchy 95
- 7 Celebrating the ‘world’s most ideal state’ 112
- 8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei 134
- 9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire 152
- 10 Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos 175
- 11 Indonesia 192
- 12 Defending the Sultanate’s territory 208
- 13 The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967–97 225
- 14 From absolute monarch to ‘symbol emperor’ 243
- 15 Dramatising Siamese independence 260
- Index 283
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- Notes on contributors x
- Acknowledgements xiii
- 1 Monarchies, decolonisation and post-colonial Asia 1
- 2 All the king’s men 22
- 3 Decolonised rulers 44
- 4 The Himalayan kingdoms, British colonialism and indigenous monarchs after the end of empire 60
- 5 Conflict and betrayal 80
- 6 Malaysia’s multi-monarchy 95
- 7 Celebrating the ‘world’s most ideal state’ 112
- 8 Refashioning the monarchy in Brunei 134
- 9 Colonial monarchy and decolonisation in the French Empire 152
- 10 Loyalism and anti-communism in the making of the modern monarchy in post-colonial Laos 175
- 11 Indonesia 192
- 12 Defending the Sultanate’s territory 208
- 13 The uses of monarchy in late-colonial Hong Kong, 1967–97 225
- 14 From absolute monarch to ‘symbol emperor’ 243
- 15 Dramatising Siamese independence 260
- Index 283
