Maitrii Aung-Thwin is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian History at the National University of Singapore.
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The Return of the Galon King
History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma
By Maitrii Aung-Thwin
In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history.
