Taw Sein Ko

Taw Sein Ko

Taw Sein Ko (December 7, 1864 - May 29, 1930) was Myanmar's first recorded archaeologist.

Taw Sein Ko was the son of a Chinese local migrant father, Taw Sein Sun and Daw Nu, a Shan princess. [ [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ip/sear/2004/00000012/00000003/art00001 Relocating the interlocutor: Taw Sein Ko and the itinerancy of knowledge in British Burma] ] He graduated from Rangoon College in 1881 and read law at the Inner Temple, Inns of Court in 1892.

In 1912, Taw Sein Ko was awarded the Gold Kaiser-i-hind Medal from Delhi Durbar and in 1917, he was knighted by King George V (1865–1936) with the Imperial Service Order as the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.

He died at the age of 66 years in Mandalay and left behind his wife, six sons and one daughter.

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