Economic history
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Online Burma/Myanmar Library
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2008-05-05
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Economic history
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Abstract: "Ratanabon City is well known as Mandalay City. It was founded by King Mindon
soon after he ascended to the Amarapura Throne in 1852. Many obstacles
were ahead of him during his reign. Myanmar was defeated in the second war
with the British the result of which was that lower Myanmar was ceded to the
latter. It was indeed, a great loss to Myanmar King for rich food supply of rice,
salted fish, fish paste and salt all of which were essential to Myanmar daily
diet. The first and foremost
reform to be carried out was to lessen its
dependence for rice on lower Myanmar. The second was to introduce coinage
system to become easier in economic transactions and taxations. And the third
was the introduction of economic monopoly system and that of
tax farming in
inter-regional trade. People could see in this period change in agriculture,
change in monetary system and change in trade all of which had never been
practiced. For these changes in economic performances to be successfully
implemented, King Mindon had an efficient, enthusiastic and zealous Heir
Apparent popularly known as Prince Kanaung who was very much interested in
all-round development of the kingdom to match with, or supersede the British
imperialists so that they could be driven out and regain lost territories. For
these reasons, reforms were introduced and carried out in the kingdom to
become materialized. In brief this research paper is intended to treat the
following three major points: on agriculture; on monetary system and on
trade.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015.
Yee Yee Win
Source/publisher:
International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015
Date of publication:
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update:
2015-09-06
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Mandalay Division, Economic history, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) 23-26 July, 2015
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English
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