Talk:Thibaw Min

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I am concerned about the way this page had been mutilated between the original write and what I found today. I guess this is the problem with many editors and fewer writers. The article as it stood no longer made sense, had been reduced to a stub and had clearly had large chunks removed without much consideration about the coherence of the article afterwards. Accordingly, I went back in the records and reconstructed this wiki using some earlier content and I have improved the referencing for the restored portions to make their referencing adequate. I fully accept that there are parts of this wiki which still require further referencing but that does not mean those portions should be instantly remove. This is a wiki about a long dead but importantly final king of an important country, accordingly it deserves a bit of love and affection but we also do not need to be as strict as we would for a living person. Please help me ADD content to this page and sensitively improve the content already there. Aetheling1125 04:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Cigarette advertisement

I've excised the cigarette advertisement from the main article. It seems rather irrelevant and doesn't add much to the actual article. King Thibaw himself gave an account of the reasons for his overthrow in a testimonial he wrote from exile for Esoof Cheroots (a brand of Indian cigarettes) and quoted by C. L. Keeton in his book King Thebaw and the Ecological Rape of Burma:

My late father, the Royal Mindon Min, the golden-footed lord of the white elephant, master of a thousand gold umbrellas, owner of the Royal peacocks, lord of the sea and of the world, whose face was like the sun, always smoked the Esoof cheroot while meditating on his treatment of the bull-faced, earthswallowing English. Had I done the same I should never have lost my throne, but I used the opium-drugged cheroots from Manila and the trash which was sent to me from San Francisco, and I fell.

--Hintha(t) 02:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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New birthday source

Britannica says he was born in 1858. Where did we get January 1, 1859?--A21sauce (talk) 16:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

• The Burmese calendar straddles the Gregorian calendar (from April to April) each year. A lot of [Western and also some Burmese] historians simply add 638 (or sometimes 639) to the Burmese year, and call it a day. Brittania--or more likely the source it relied on-- probably added 638 to Thibaw's birth year of 1220 ME to arrive at 1858 CE. But the king's birthday--12th waning of Nadaw 1220 ME--translates to 1 January 1859. Hybernator (talk) 06:30, 6 April 2019 (UTC)