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A Burmese tract on kingship: political theory in the 1782 manuscript of Manugye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2001

RYUJI OKUDAIRA  and
ANDREW HUXLEY
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Abstract

In 1782, the year of King Badon's coronation, someone close to the Burmese palace wrote a legal manuscript. This paper gives a translation of and commentary on that section of the manuscript dealing with kingship. By tracing the sources of the material used, it contributes to the debate about the sources of Burmese political philosophy. Was precolonial Burmese political thought primarily Hindu, primarily Buddhist, primarily Indian or none of the above?

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 248 - 259
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© School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2001

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