Additional Burmese historical sources 1752-78

Abstract

This paper is a supplement to the papers "Burmese Historical Sources 1752-1885" and "A Bibliographical Essay of Burmese Sources of the History of the Konbaung Period 1752-1885"."The latter is an enlargement of the former with examples and quotations from the Burmese sources. In these papers after giving an extremely brief account of Burmese political history from 1044 to 1885 and the writing materials used, the Burmese sources were divided into four broad groups - inscriptions, chronicles, literature and official records - and studied. In this paper we shall be dealing mainly with primary unpublished Burmese material on the period 1752-76. For the sake of convenience we shall divide the period under survey into three short ones. They are: I. 1752-60 the reign of Alaungmintaragyi. II. 1760-63 the reign of Dabayin Min popularly known as Naungdawgyi. III. 1763-76 the reign of Mye du Min popularly known as Hsinbyushin.