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Kyoto Area Studies on Asia 30

Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma

: Another interpretation of an early modern society in Southeast Asia

ISBN: 9784814005383

pub. date: 02/24

Written Language: English

Publisher: Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press

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内容

Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet-kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuable documents that show the socioeconomic conditions of the time. Through the reading of more than 3,000 local historical documents, the author vividly reflects specific ups and downs of the lives of ordinary people in early modern Burma, including disputes over debts and the flexible civil court system for adjudicating them, and the wisdom of life.

Using Burma as a case study, this book is an attempt to empirically demonstrate the possibilities of research on early modern Southeast Asia based on documentary sources unique to the region, which until now have been largely unexplored. A new image of Burma’s early modern period emerges here, overturning the conventional view of history that assumes a two-tier society of ‘absolute monarchs’ versus ‘people without rights’.

プロフィール

Saito Teruko is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her specialty is Burmese socioeconomic history.

目次

List of illustrations
Explanatory notes
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: thet-kayits as important historical documents
I. Money-lending Contracts and Their Background
Chapter 1: Climate, Demographic Changes, and Foreign Wars
Chapter 2: The Konbaung Era in Burmese Monetary History
II. Humans as Collateral for Debt
Chapter 3: Human-mortgage Contracts in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 4: Human-mortgage Contracts in the Salin Region
III. Land as Collateral for Debt
Chapter 5: Land-mortgage Contracts in Byangya Village
Chapter 6: Land-mortgage Contracts in the Central Plains
IV. How to Characterize Early Modern Burma?
Chapter 7: Early Modern Burma as a Contractual Society
Chapter 8: Mediation of Disputes over Pledged Land
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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