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Title: Gold and silver flowers: symbolism and the problem of meaning in Thai-Malay tributary relationship
Authors: Sharifah Zaleha Syed Hassan
Conference Name: Seminar on Cultural Understanding Thailand - Malaysia
Keywords: Gold flower
Silver flower
Thai-Malay tributary relationship
Bunga emas
Bunga perak
Conference Date: 28/05/1990
Conference Location: Srinakharinwirot University,Songkhla Campus
Abstract: Kedah was known to have entered into the political orbit of Thailand in as early as the thirteenth century. Being an outlying province, the state initially established connections only with Nakhon Sri Thammarat. It was only in the sixteenth century that Kedah was placed under more direct control of the capital province of Bangkok. This became possible during the reign of King Trailok whose administrative reforms led to the establishment of a much more differentiated and centralised form of governnent capable of incorporating the outlying provinces. As a prathetsarat or moan prahdesa raja Kedah was required to participate in the Thai tributary system by sending two miniatura trees one made of gold and the other silver to very three years Malave referred the Thai court every three years Malays referred to these precious objects as bunga emas dan bunga perak or more simply as bunga mas.
Pages: 17 p.
Call Number: DS568.S45 1990 kat sem.
Publisher: Institute for Soluthern Thai Studies,Thailand
Appears in Collections:Seminar Papers/ Proceedings / Kertas Kerja Seminar/ Prosiding

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