[Tlc] Re: Historian wants country called 'Siam'

[Robert Albritton]

My own view is that this whole issue has a more insidious purpose. It 
is one of the many ways that royalist elites are attempting to draw 
Thailand back toward the traditional kingdom and undo the course of 
history begun in 1932. I have always been amazed at the revelations 
about the struggles between "democrats" and "royalists," for example, 
the effort to tear down the Democracy Monument because it was an 
"affront to the king." (See The King Never Smiles.) It may sound 
paranoid, but the whole Thaksin issue is about the survival of the 
Chakri dynasty.
Bob

To Nara Ganesan: I am so sorry I just now learned that you are in 
Hiroshima. I visited there last summer while attending the IPSA in 
Fukuoka. I would love to have a chance to visit with you!



At 01:50 PM 4/4/2007, Michael Jerryson wrote:
>In Craig Reynold's new book, Seditious Histories, on page 275 
>(endnote #2) he references Yoneo Ishii for pointing out that "sayam 
>was coined during Mongkut's reign and is thus as colored by 
>political considerations as the country's naming in 1939 or 1948."
>
>warmly,
>
>michael

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