Tharrawaddy Min

Infobox Monarch
name=Tharrawaddy Min
title=King
reign=Konbaung Dynasty:1837 - 1846
predecessor=Bagyidaw
successor=Pagan Min
queen=Min Myat Shwe
consort=
dynasty=Konbaung Dynasty
father=Prince of Debayin, s/o Bodawpaya
mother=Princess of Taungdwin, d/o Bodawpaya [cite web|url=http://www.royalark.net/Burma/konbaun5.htm|title=The Royal Ark:Burma - The Konbaung Dynasty|first=Christopher|last=Buyers|accessdate=2007-03-13]
date of birth=birth date|1787|3|14|mf=y
place of birth=Amarapura
date of death=death date and age|1846|11|17|1787|3|14|mf=y
place of death=Amarapura|

Tharrawaddy Min (14 March 1787 - 17 November 1846) ( _my. သာယာဝတီမင္‌း) was the 8th king (reigned 1837–46) of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), who repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and almost went to war with the British. He was born Maung Khaing, grandson of Bodawpaya, son of the Crown Prince who led the armies into the Arakan in 1784, and younger brother of Bagyidaw. He was appointed Heir Apparent in 1819. As Prince of Tharrawaddy he fought in the First Anglo-Burmese War during the reign of his brother Bagyidaw in 1824, and towards the end of the latter's reign in 1837, he raised the standard of rebellion after escaping to Shwebo, the ancestral place of the Konbaung kings. Tharrawaddy succeeded in overthrowing Bagyidaw and was crowned king in 1840. Princess Min Myat Shwe, a granddaughter of Hsinbyushin, whom he married in 1809, was crowned as his chief queen ("Nanmadaw Mibaya Hkaungyi").

In 1841 King Tharrawaddy donated a 42-ton bell called the "Maha Tissada Gandha" (great three-toned sweet sound) Bell and 20 kg of goldplating to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. His reign was rife with rumours of preparations for another war with the British who had added the Arakan and Tenasserim to their dominions. [cite web|url=http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/1.2%20PDF%20FILES/1.2%2010%20Tharrawaddy.pdf|title=Some Documents of Tharrawaddy's Reign:1837-1846, Part I|publisher= SOAS|year=Autumn 2003|accessdate=2007-03-12] It was however not until 1852, after Tharrawaddy was succeeded by his son Pagan Min, that the Second Anglo-Burmese War broke out.

References

*1911

External links

* [http://www.royalark.net/Burma/konbau12.htm The Royal Ark:Burma - The Konbaung Dynasty] Christopher Buyers