Today, some have wrongly attributed the legend of Nai Khanomtom to King Naresuan, who spent his youth as a royal hostage in Burma while Ayutthaya was a Burmese vassal.

Ancestor worship was present in the royal court in pre-colonial Burma.

He wrote a number of pieces connected to his royal post, including Mass of Christ the King ( 1978 ) ( see below ) and Lament in Memory of Lord Mountbatten of Burma ( 1980 ).

Uparaja or Ouparath, also Ouparaja (, ), was a royal title reserved for the vice royal in the Buddhist dynasties in Burma, Cambodia, and Laos and Thailand as well as some of their minor tributary kingdoms.

The British colonized Burma in stages-it was not until 1885 when they captured the royal capital of Mandalay that Burma as a whole could be declared part of the British Empire.

Mandalay ( ; or ) is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma.

King Mindon founded the last royal capital of Burma, Mandalay, in 1857.

In 1569 Burmese forces, joined by Siamese rebels, captured and looted the city of Ayutthaya, carrying the royal family into captivity in Burma.

According to Burmese accounts, Kyanzittha, the ruler of Pagan ( Burma ) met with the Chola royal family by sending an ambassador to the Chola emperor.

The complex ceased to be a royal residence and seat of government on 28 November 1885 when, during the Third Anglo-Burmese War, troops of the Burma Field Force entered the palace and captured the royal family.

Many historians recorded that Sohn Uttar Sthavira ( one of the royal monks ) to Ashoka the Great came to Burma ( Suvarnabhumi or Suvannabhumi ) around 228 BC with other monks and sacred texts, including books.

`` The Forgotten War '' his soldiers called the Burma fighting because the war in Africa and Europe enjoyed priorities in equipment and in headlines.

But in 2006 a divided United Nations General Assembly voted through a resolution that strongly called upon the government of Burma to end its systematic violations of human rights.

* The Indochinese tiger ( Panthera tigris corbetti ), also called Corbett's tiger, is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.

In the 1790s Burma was defeated and driven out of Siam, as it was then called.

Similar condiments from Thailand and Burma are called nam pla ( น ้ ำปลา ) and ngan bya yay ( င ံ ပ ြာ ရည ်) respectively.

In Burma, ginger is called gyin.

Also called the " Sacred Cat of Burma ", it is not to be confused with the Burmese, which is a separate and dissimilar breed.

In Myanmar ( Burma ), the Burmese Chinese refer to them as an-pao (), and South Korea's envelopes, which are white, not red, are called " sae bae don ".

East-Indian Lemon Grass ( Cymbopogon flexuosus ), also called Cochin Grass or Malabar Grass ( Malayalam: ഇഞ ് ച ി പ ് പ ു ല ് ല ്( inchippullu ), is native to Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand while the West-Indian lemon grass ( Cymbopogon citratus ) is native to maritime Southeast Asia.

A sharp bend west and another south takes the Salween between the great mountain ranges of eastern Burma, the Daen Lao Range, a subrange of the Shan Hills, followed by the Dawna Hills in the east and the Karen Hills in the west, to join the Moei River from the east as it approaches Thailand, where it is called the Salawin.

In 1976 a housewife in Devon, Gwen Troake, won a competition called Cook of the Realm, leading to the BBC selecting her to organise a banquet to be attended by Edward Heath, Earl Mountbatten of Burma and other VIPs.

Glutinous rice, called kao hnyin (), is very popular in Myanmar ( also known as Burma ).

Lacquer-yielding trees in Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and Taiwan, called Thitsi, are slightly different ; they do not contain urushiol, but similar substances called " laccol " or " thitsiol ".

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.

It was not long after the incident that he was transferred from Moulmein to a quiet post in Upper Burma called Katha.

Most modern Burmese are descendants of one female cat called Wong Mau, which was brought from Burma to America in 1930.

He joined the Royal West African Frontier Force and at the outbreak of war in 1039 was called up and served with them for four years in the Arakan, Burma, fighting like commandos to keep the Japanese away from India.

The Union of Myanmar ( the official name of Burma ) has regularly conducted limited low-intensity military campaigns against the independence movement of the Karen people in an area of southeast Burma ( roughly corresponding to a Burmese administrative region called the Kayin State ), which has actively pursued independence since January 1949.

As early as 6th century, another people called the Mon began to enter the present-day Lower Burma from the Mon kingdoms of Haribhunjaya and Dvaravati in modern-day Thailand.

Aung San's intention was to make contact with the Chinese Communists but he was detected by the Japanese authorities who offered him support by forming a secret intelligence unit called the Minami Kikan headed by Colonel Suzuki with the objective of closing the Burma Road and supporting a national uprising.

Other neighbouring residents of Kachin State include the Shans ( Thai / Lao related ), the Lisus, the Rawangs, the Nagas, and the Burmans, the latter forming the largest ethnic group in Burma, also called Bamar.

Zaiwa ( also spelled Tsaiwa ; called Atsi in Jingpo proper, Zǎiwǎyǔ 载瓦语 in Chinese, and Zi in Burmese ) is spoken by approximately 80, 000 people in China and 30, 000 people in Burma.

* Ten Suttas from Digha Nikaya, Burma Pitaka Association, Rangoon, 1984 ; 1, 2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 26, 28-9, 31

* Twenty-Five Suttas from Mula-Pannasa, Burma Pitaka Association, Rangoon, 1986?

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

This is done because the name change " was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma ".

The independence of Burma and Ceylon was also negotiated around this time.

The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father ( whom he never met ), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.

") Dacoits existed in Burma as well as India, and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Private Mulvaney was hunting Burmese " dacoits " in The Taking of Lungtungpen.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

At the end of that year, he was assigned to Katha in Upper Burma, where he contracted dengue fever in 1927.

A colleague, Roger Beadon, recalled ( in a 1969 recording for the BBC ) that Orwell was fast to learn the language and that before he left Burma, " was able to speak fluently with Burmese priests in ' very high-flown Burmese.

On 1 January 1942 he was knighted and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and in February, after the Japanese invasion of Burma, was sent to India to become GOC-in-C of British Forces in Burma as a full general.

Alexander was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces in Burma, March 1942, and ordered Slim to abandon Mandalay and retreat to India.

By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.

ICI was confronted with the nationalisation of its operations in Burma on 1 August 1962 as a consequence of the military coup.