- Author:
- O'Connor, V. C. Scott (Vincent Clarence Scott)
- Publication Info:
-
London:
Hutchinson and co,
1904,
pg 26
Text on page 26
The Silken East v
the Siamese seas, eastward to Tongking, and north and west till it reached the Brahmaputra and founded the Ahom kingdom of Assam. The Shan are now found in Burma, in the Shan States, and far down the eastern peninsula to Mergui. In the north they spread over the whole of the upper territories of the
Iheinni
Son of Nyaung-Ywe Thibaw
inibaw
shan princes
Irrawaddy from Myitkina to the Third Defile ; and along the Chindwin, where traces of their former supremacy survive in the principalities of Singkalinga Hkamti and Thaungdut. They have ruled at Ava, and have come near to the mastery of Burma. They owe their failure to their inability to combine on any national scale. In economic qualities they surpass the
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