Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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The Shwedagon 1855
old Royal Hotel
Excelsior theatre
Le Maison Continental (a leading French restaurant) @ the offices Burma Railways
Le Maison Continental (a leading French restaurant) is partly visible on the left, the offices Burma Railways on the right.
Opposite the Scott Market - Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street) c. 1935, with the Chulia Dargah to the right.
rom another presidential visit: Vice President Richard Nixon at Government House, Rangoon in 1953 with Miss Irene Ba U, President Dr Ba U and Mrs Nixon.
27 November 1885: the Burmese surrender at Ava.
On 26 November the Kyaukmyaung Atwinwun and the Wetmasut Wundauk arrived at Ava to negotiate a surrender with the Burma Expeditionary Force of General Sir Harry Prendergast.
The Ava fort commander the Myoza of Myothit refused to accept the authority of the two royal envoys and agreed to surrender on 27 November only after receiving a direct order from King Thibaw by telegraph.
That afternoon, the Myothit Myoza sat on riverbank weeping as he watched the British ships then sail towards Mandalay.
Brigadier General GS White remembers that "the sun was pouring a flood of golden light on the last hours of Burman independence."
The old Whiteaway Laidlaw department store at the corner of Phayre Street (Pansodan) and Merchant Street.
This week in 1885 - the end of independence.
Sir Charles Bernard, Chief Commissioner of British Burma, enters Mandalay palace for the first time. In two weeks Burma would be proclaimed a province of India.
There was still then the idea of placing another Burman prince on the Konbaung throne under a British protectorate, like Hyderabad or Manipur. When this was found 'impractical' (in part because the preferred candidate the Nyaunggyan Prince had just died in Calcutta), Sir Charles considered a form of indirect rule through the Hluttaw (as a Council of Ministers headed by the Kinwun Mingyi).
In February 1886 however the British opted to abolish the Hluttaw, together with other royal institutions, much to the dismay of the Burmese aristocracy. Over the next year the even more fateful decision was made to rule all of "Burma proper" directly but the hill areas (the Shan states, Chin and Kachin Hills which not part of the old kingdom) "indirectly" through their own hereditary chiefs. The two areas (now the 'Regions' and 'States') would have very different colonial experiences leading to very different local perspectives and big problems by the time independence was regained in 1948.
The wife and son of the Sawbwa of Wuntho in 1890 with family and retainers.
The Sawbwa of Wuntho led a fierce resistance to British occupation but was finally defeated in 1891 by a British brigade of 1,800 men under General Sir George Wolseley. The seven hundred year old Wuntho principality was incorporated into the Katha district of the new Sagaing Division.
This photograph was taken by the British just after Wuntho had been captured and the Sawbwa had fled north to Yunnan (where he would live for 22 years).
The Shwedagon Pagoda 1855.
A view of Rangoon from Dalla c. 1868 by the American photographer J. Jackson.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းသခင္ကိုယ္ေတာ္မိႈင္းထံေပးပို ့ခဲ့ေသာစာမူ။
ဒုတိယဥကၠဌ တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့စဥ္ကာလ နာယက
ဆရာၾကီးသခင္ကိုယ္ေတာ္မိႈင္း
Daw hmi cafee in Mahabandoola street - Rangoon, c.1962
The strange tale of the "Hairy Family" of Mandalay.
The strange tale of the "Hairy Family" of Mandalay.
They were once world-famous. It started with a boy, found in the uplands of what is today Laos, later named Shwe Maung, brought to the Court of Ava by King Bagyidaw.
Shwe Maung and his descendants would live at the royal court - at Amarapura and Mandalay - for three generations. They were educated and often made money by exhibiting themselves to visiting Europeans. Everything changed with the fall of Mandalay in 1885, and they temporarily fled into the forest for their safety.
Shwe Maung's daughter (Ma Phon) and grandchildren (Maung Po Set and Ma Me) soon came under the 'management' of an English businessman who shipped to London and Paris, where many firms competed to hire them as circus freaks.
The winning contract was secured by the American showman PT Barnum (later of Barnum and Baily's "Greatest Show on Earth") for $100,000 (worth millions in today's money). Ma Phon died shortly after making it to Washington in 1888 and is apparently buried there. No one knows what happened to her son Maung Po Set and Ma Me. They vanished in America.
They were once world-famous. It started with a boy, found in the uplands of what is today Laos, later named Shwe Maung, brought to the Court of Ava by King Bagyidaw.
Shwe Maung and his descendants would live at the royal court - at Amarapura and Mandalay - for three generations. They were educated and often made money by exhibiting themselves to visiting Europeans. Everything changed with the fall of Mandalay in 1885, and they temporarily fled into the forest for their safety.
Shwe Maung's daughter (Ma Phon) and grandchildren (Maung Po Set and Ma Me) soon came under the 'management' of an English businessman who shipped to London and Paris, where many firms competed to hire them as circus freaks.
The winning contract was secured by the American showman PT Barnum (later of Barnum and Baily's "Greatest Show on Earth") for $100,000 (worth millions in today's money). Ma Phon died shortly after making it to Washington in 1888 and is apparently buried there. No one knows what happened to her son Maung Po Set and Ma Me. They vanished in America.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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Scene of before the order of " Foot wering is strictly prohibited " at pagoda in Burma, c.1911
Portrait of two women in custume,one with parasol, c.1894
Burmese girls off for a picnic in a bullock cart,mopoon-Burma, c.1905
May 1945,With Sule pagoda
Friday, January 9, 2015
၁၉၁၂-ခုႏွစ္က ေတြ႔ျမင္ရေသာ ေရႊတိဂုံဘုရား ပုရဝဏ္အတြင္းမွ ေဗဒင္ဆရာတစ္ဦး***
Child Naming Ceremony in mandalay Burma.1890
၁၈၉၀-ခုႏွစ္က ေတြ႔ျမင္ရေသာ မႏၲေလးျမိဳ႕ရွိ လူကုံထံမိသားစု၏ ကေလးငယ္အား နာမည္ေပးကင္ပြန္းတပ္ မဂၤလာပြဲ***
၁၈၈၆-ခုႏွစ္က မႏၲေလးျမိဳ႕ နန္းျမိဳ႕ရိုးက်ံဳးေတာင္ဘက္ က ေဆးလိပ္ဆိုင္.. ယခု..မႏၲေလး ၂၆-B လမ္းေဘး***
ယခု..မႏၲေလး ၂၆-B လမ္းေဘး***
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္က အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခဲ႔ေသာ သမၼတၾကီးမ်ား
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