Tharrawaddy Min Explained

Tharrawaddy
Burmese: သာယာဝတီမင်း
Reign:15 April 1837 – 17 November 1846
Coronation:8 July 1840
Succession:King of Burma
Prince of Tharrawaddy
Predecessor:Bagyidaw
Successor:Pagan Min
Suc-Type:Successor
Spouse:Me Myat Shwe
96 queens in total
Issue:18 sons and 18 daughters including:
Regnal Name:Siri Pavarāditya Lokadhipati Vijaya Mahādhammarājadhirāja
(Burmese: သိရီပဝရာဒိတျ လောကာဓိပတိ ဝိဇယမဟာဓမ္မရာဇာဓိရာဇာ)
House:Konbaung
Father:Thado Minsaw
Mother:Min Kye, Princess of Taungdwin
Birth Name:Maung Khin (Burmese: မောင်ခင်)
Birth Date:14 March 1787
Birth Place:Amarapura
Death Place:Amarapura
Place Of Burial:Amarapura
Religion:Theravada Buddhism

Tharrawaddy Min (Burmese: သာယာဝတီမင်း, in Burmese pronounced as /θàjàwədì mɪ́ɰ̃/; 14 March 1787 – 17 November 1846) was the 8th king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma. He repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and almost went to war with the British.

Tharrawaddy was born Maung Khin to Crown Prince Thado Minsaw (son of King Bodawpaya) and Princess Min Kye on 14 March 1787. When his elder brother Bagyidaw ascended the throne in 1819, Tharrawaddy was appointed Heir Apparent. As crown prince, he fought in the First Anglo-Burmese War. In February 1837, he raised the standard of rebellion after escaping to Shwebo, the ancestral place of the Konbaung kings. Tharrawaddy succeeded in overthrowing Bagyidaw in April and was crowned king. Princess Min Myat Shwe, a granddaughter of Hsinbyushin, whom he married in 1809, was crowned as his chief queen (Nanmadaw Mibaya Hkaungyi).

In 1841 King Tharrawaddy donated a 42-ton bell called the Maha Tissada Gandha Bell and of goldplating to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. His reign was rife with rumours of preparations for another war with the British who had added the Arakan and Tenasserim to their dominions.[1] It was, however, not until 1852, after Tharrawaddy was succeeded by his son Pagan Min, that the Second Anglo-Burmese War broke out.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Some Documents of Tharrawaddy's Reign:1837–1846, Part I. SOAS. Autumn 2003. 2007-03-12. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070428235430/http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/1.2%20PDF%20FILES/1.2%2010%20Tharrawaddy.pdf. 2007-04-28.
  2. Burma . 4 . 845.