Konbaung Set Yazawin

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Konbaung Set Yazawin
Kingdom of Burma
LanguageBurmese
SeriesBurmese chronicles
GenreChronicle, History
Publication date
1905[1]
Preceded byDutiya Yazawin 

Konbaung Set Maha Yazawindawgyi (

Konbaung Dynasty (1752–1885). Its author, Maung Maung Tin, a British colonial official and a son of Konbaung royalty, took Konbaung period portions of the two previous official chronicles, Hmannan Yazawin and Dutiya Yazawin, added the last years (1854–1885) of the dynasty, and packaged it as the single Konbaung era chronicle.[2] It was first published in 1905, and later updated in 1921 to include the death of King Thibaw in 1916 as a postscript.[3]

Brief

The author of the chronicle,

Chinese forces of the Allied forces.)[5]

For the compilation of Konbaung Set, he used the surviving materials as well as several interviews with the surviving members of the court. The main consultants to Tin were:[6]

Name Notes
Taungzin Mintha Son of crown prince
Minhtin Maha Sithu Governor of Wetmasut
Minhla Maha Zeya Nanda Thingyan U Hla Bu Deputy Minister at Konbaung court
Minhtin Minhla Yaza U Hsu Pan Royal messenger
Ne Myo Minhtin Yaza U Po Kywe Privy Council member
Ne Myo Minhtin Yaza U Tote Kyi Privy Council member and son-in-law of the crown prince

Publications

All publications of Konbaung Set as of 2004 were in Burmese only. Konbaung Set was first published in 1905, and a second edition (with a small update of King Thibaw's death) was published in 1922. The second edition was reprinted as the third printing in 1967–1968. It was followed by the fourth printing in 2004.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Toe Hla in preface of Tin 2004: 17–18
  2. ^ Allot et al 1989: 13–14
  3. ^ a b Hla Pe 1985: 41
  4. ^ Myint-U 2006: 30
  5. ^ Maha Tharay Sithu U Chan Tha in Tin 2004: 25–27
  6. ^ Maha Tharay Sithu U Chan Tha in Tin 2004: 30–31

References

  • Allot, Anna; Patricia Herbert; John Okell (1989). Patricia Herbert, Anthony Crothers Milner (ed.). South-East Asia: Languages and Literatures : a Select Guide. University of Hawaii Press.
    ISBN 9780824812676
    .
  • ISBN 9789971988005
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  • Maung Maung Tin, U (1905). Konbaung Set Maha Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2004 ed.). Yangon: Department of Universities History Research, University of Yangon.
  • Myint-U, Thant (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps—Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
    ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6
    .
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