In Myanmar: The emergence of nationalism …to be known as the Thakin movement. The name for this movement was purposely ironic: the Burmese word thakin (“master”) was the term that …

Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (Burmese: သခင်ကိုယ်တော်မှိုင်း, 23 March 1876 – 23 July 1964) is viewed as one of the best Burmese artists, essayists and political pioneers in the …

Thakin Zin, chairman of the BCP, was killed by government troops in the Pegu Yoma on March 15, 1975. The government suppressed the communist rebellion in central Burma on March 20, …

Drawing their name from the way in which the British were addressed during colonial times, thakin means "lord" or "master", just as the Indians called the British "

2011年8月10日 · In September of that year, as war broke out in Europe, Ba Maw's Sinyetha Party joined forces with the Burma Revolutionary Party, a Thakin group formed by Kodaw Hmaing …

Members addressed each other as thakin, meaning "master," a term (like sahib, used in British-ruled India) that had customarily been employed by Burmese in everyday communications to address the British. Their use of the term to refer to themselves was subversive to British authority, but many older, conservative Burmese thought it ...