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1029: 164: 53: 269:-tree, known far and wide as Mai Hung Kan, at Maklang.... The adjoining monastery was burnt by Twet Nga Lu's brigands, and not even the sanctity of the tree which twenty men could not span, under whose branches a fair-sized village might be built, has yet been able to persuade the monks to return. There are not, in fact, enough of the pious in the neighbourhood to support them." 1086: 264:
East of the Nam Teng River in the State of Keng Tawng, "the country for nearly twenty miles at a stretch," Mr. Scott reported, "is practically a desert. Yet all along the road old wells and ruinous monasteries and the grass-grown skeletons of former paddy-fields, to say nothing of hill-clearings,
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showed that formerly there must have been a large population here.... The handful of people who have so far returned to Keng Tawng have settled twenty miles farther south, round the site of the old capital. There is a magnificent
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whose ambitions and crafty schemes were at the root of widespread bloodshed and destruction in the region in those times. Twet Nga Lu also caused much desolation in his own native state. According to Sir
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and was separated from it by a mountain range running from north to south averaging 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) in height. Kengtawng was watered by the
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conflates the population figures of Mongnai with those of its sub-State of Kengtawng
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There is no information about the rulers of Kengtawng state.
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and warmonger Twet Nga Lu was born in Kengtawng. He was an
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Full text of "Census of India, 1901" - Internet Archive
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Index

Shan States
Keng Tawng
Shan States

Keng Tawng
Shan State
1901 Census of India
Burmese
Shan
Burma
Keng Tawng
Mongnai State
Nam Teng River
Mongnai State
origin myth
Shan people
usurper
unfrocked monk
George Scott
banyan
Mong Nai
Full text of "Census of India, 1901" - Internet Archive
Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 405.
Kanbawasa - A Modern Review
Mi Mi Khaing
"WHKMLA : History of the Shan States"
Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite, The Pacification of Burma
"World Statesmen.org: Shan and Karenni States of Burma"
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