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Place of Birth: Amarapura, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
About Pagan Min
- Pagan Min (Burmese: ????????, pronounced [b?gà ? m?´?]; 21 June 1811 – 14 March 1880), was the ninth king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma.
- Born Maung Biddhu Khyit, he was granted the title of Prince of Pagan by his father Tharrawaddy in August 1842.
- Pagan Min became king when Tharrawaddy died on 17 November 1846, with the formal title of His Majesty "Sri Pawara Vijaya Nanda Jatha Maha Dharma Rajadhiraja Pagan Min Taya-gyi".
- He married 18 times.Pagan Min won the power struggle to succeed his father by having his rival brothers killed.
- His chief ministers Maung Baing Zat and Maung Bhein enriched themselves by executing rich subjects.The Second Anglo-Burmese War broke out during the reign of Pagan Min.
- In 1851 the governor of Pegu, Maung Ok, charged the captains of two British merchant ships with murder, embezzlement, and evasion of custom duties.
- He fined them 500 rupees, and required their debts be paid before being authorized to return to Kolkata.
- After receiving their complaints, Lord Dalhousie, the governor-general of British India, sent Commodore George Lambert to the king requesting a compensation of £920 and the dismissal of Maung Ok.
- Pagan complied by replacing Maung Ok.
- But on 6 January 1852, when the new governor declined to meet with a British delegation because Lambert had seized the Burmese Royal ship, all British subjects were evacuated and the coast of Rangoon was blockaded.
- Within days, British warships were bombarding Yangon.
- On 7 February, Pagan wrote Dalhousie to protest against the acts of aggression.
- On 13 February, Dalhousie sent an ultimatum to the king, demanding an equivalent of £100,000 as compensation for "having had to prepare for war", to be paid by 1 April.
- The ultimatum expired with no reply, and a few days later, British troops invaded the Burmese territory.
- Britain annexed the province of Pegu in December.Pagan Min’s half brother Mindon opposed the war; he fled with his brother Kanaung to Shwebo and raised the standard of rebellion.
- After a few weeks of fighting, Pagan’s chief minister Magwe Mingyi went over to Mindon’s side and Pagan Min abdicated on 18 February 1853, in favour of Mindon.
- Mindon allowed Pagan to live, and released all the European prisoners.
- Mindon sued for peace with the British but refused to sign a treaty ceding Burmese territory.
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