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	Mongkut - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mongkut (1804-1868), king of Siam (renamed Thailand in 1939) from 1851 to 1868, the first of two great kings who modernized Siam in the 19th...
		The new monarch was King Mongkut (Rama IV), the younger son of Rama II, who assumed the throne in 1851.
		Siam retained independence due to the efforts of two progressive kings, Mongkut (Rama IV) and his son Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mongkut.html (83 words)

	Linguistic Proclamations of King Mongkut (Rama VI)
		Mongkut was keenly aware of the importance Europeans paid to 'modern' culture, and of the role of language in creating that image.
		The West at Mongkut's Accession Much of Mongkut's reign was preoccupied with maintaining Siam's independence in the face of British pressure from the west and south, and that of France from the north and east.
		The topics Mongkut raised laid out the paramaters of upper-register Thai, and set the agenda for a generation of Thai grammarians, This opened the door for the prescriptive grammars of the late 19th century, and ultimately helped establish a particular dialect, Central Thai, as the national language.
	seasrc.th.net /mongkut/mongkut.htm (3188 words)

	Mongkut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince Mongkut was the son of King Rama II and his first wife Queen Srisuriyendra, whose first son died at birth in 1801.
		Prince Mongkut was five years old when his father succeeded to the throne in 1809.
		Mongkut's calculations proved to be exactly accurate, but this scientific expedition became perilous when Mongkut and Prince Chulalongkorn were infected with malaria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongkut (1104 words)

	King Mongkut History
		King Mongkut was the first king to put great emphasis on a modern education system, since he fraternized extensively with Westerners, both Americans and Europeans.
		King Mongkut had to resort to a “step-by-step” approach, a most challenging undertaking that he endeavoured to fulfill throughout his reign.
		King Mongkut however solved this problem by telling his people the truth that the comet is just a natural phenomenon.
	www.lesaproject.com /mongkut_2005/eng/History.php (548 words)

	The First Asian Tiger: Siam in the 19th Century
		Mongkut took the throne just as Great Britain and France were showing a growing interest in acquiring lands in Southeast Asia, and he was determined not to see his country go down the same route to subservience that Siam's long-time rivals Annam (Vietnam) and Burma had.
		Among Mongkut's reforms were the codification and publication of the country's laws, the election of judges (a failed reform that was abandoned), allowing citizens to petition the king for the redress of grievances, and an attempt to alleviate the poor condition of slaves.
		Mongkut had dozens of children, and planned to turn the throne over to his eldest legitimate son, Chulalongkorn, when the boy reached age 20 in 1873.
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs4/siam1.shtml (1927 words)

	Thailand Mongkut's Opening to the West - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Mongkut's father, Loet La (Rama II, 1809-24), had placed him in a Buddhist monastery in 1824 to prevent a bloody succession struggle between factions loyal to Mongkut and those supporting Nang Klao (although Nang Klao was older than Mongkut, his mother was a concubine, whereas Mongkut's mother was a royal queen).
		Mongkut was convinced that his realm must have full relations with the Western countries in order to survive as an independent nation and avoid the humiliations China and Burma had suffered in wars with Britain.
		Although little in the way of substantive modernization was accomplished during his reign, Mongkut eliminated some of the ancient mystique of the monarch's divinity by allowing commoners to gaze on his face, published a royal gazette of the country's laws, and hired a number of Western experts as consultants, teachers, and technicians.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/thailand/thailand_history_mongkuts_opening_to_the_west.html (583 words)

	King Mongkut of thailand
		At the age of 14, Prince Mongkut began his interaction with the Buddhist monkhood by becoming a novice for seven months, as was customary for most children born of noble families.
		Mongkut foresaw the revolution in spreading education by this means and had a new printing press with Pali characters established in his monastery in 1836.
		Mongkut undoubtedly felt as though he needed to make up for lost time; he also realized that diplomacy was imperative if Siam was to survive in the age of imperialism.
	bosp.kcc.hawaii.edu /Horizons/Horizons2002/King_Mongkut_Thailand.html (3936 words)

	aboutfilm.Com - Anna and the King (1999)
		She is assigned quarters in the palace upon her arrival (despite Mongkut's promise to give her a house of her own) and subsequently ignored.
		Mongkut also knows that preserving Siam's independence from Britain (or France) will not be easy--especially because there have been reports of border raids by Burmese soldiers, and Burma is a British protectorate.
		Mongkut suspects the Burmese of trying to provoke a war in order to prompt British intervention against Siam, so being perceived as pro-English is politic.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/a/annaandtheking.htm (1697 words)

	King Mongkut - Rama IV
		On his accession to the throne, King Mongkut (Rama IV) was 47 years of age, having spent 27 years in the monkhood.
		Thus he was well-equipped for the responsibilities of kingship, which account for the fact that he inaugurated a policy of modernising the country along Western lines, starting with the signing of a new set of treaties with the Western Powers in 1855.
		King Mongkut opened the land to a vital flow of foreign commerce and opened men's minds to new ideas.
	www.thaistudents.com /kingandi/mongkut.html (299 words)

	Royalty.nu - King Mongkut of Siam (Rama IV) and Anna Leonowens - The Real "King And I"
		Mongkut had 72 brothers and sisters, borne by 38 different mothers, but Mongkut was the crown prince, expected to inherit the throne after his father's death.
		When Mongkut was 20, his father died and a council of princes and court officials chose Jetta to be Siam's new king.
		Mongkut was a true monarch, with total power over his five and a half million subjects.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/Thailand/Mongkut.html (1339 words)

	Mongkut - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mongkut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although he later acquired the reputation of a reformer, Mongkut was in reality an enlightened traditional ruler with an open mind towards Western learning.
		As a young man, Mongkut's claim to the throne on the death of Rama II in 1824 was overlooked, and he spent the reign of his half-brother Rama III (1824–51) as a monk in Buddhist monasteries.
		He became a scholar of both Pali and Western languages, with Christian missionaries as his teachers, and as a result he developed a strong desire to reform the Buddhist priesthood in Thailand.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mongkut (223 words)

	Newsweek piece on Anna & the King in general- Chow Yun Fat Realvideo Interview Archive
		Anxious to protect the image of Mongkut, whose heirs are still in power, the authorities fear the new film will also offend the institution of the monarchy.
		King Mongkut is a potent symbol of independence, particularly at a time when a financially battered Asia is worrying about "colonization" by Western investors and bankers.
		Mongkut pre-empted Britain's gunboat diplomacy by embracing open trade before the boats arrived and personally welcoming the British trade emissary.
	members.tripod.com /~abesapien/articles/anna_newsweek1.html (1744 words)

	Thai King- Rama IV
		King Mongkut, worked hard during his reign against all difficulties for survival of Thailand during a period of western colonization.
		In 1868, after 17 years on the throne, King Mongkut went to Wako Subdistrict, Prachuab Khri Khan in the south of Thailand to view a total solar eclipse, which he had predicted correctly.
		King Mongkut, a wise and remarkable King brought Thailand out of the past, enabling it to take its place among the more modern nation of the world.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~alephs/itec845/final/rama4.htm (741 words)

	Mongkut - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mongkut or Rama IV, 1804-68, king of Siam, now Thailand (1851-68).
		Mongkut became king as Rama IV in 1851, and then used his knowledge, especially of the West, accumulated during his long years of study, to further his country's interests.
		Mongkut was made famous in the West by Margaret Landon's book Anna and the King of Siam (1944), which was based on the reminiscences of Anna Leonowens, a British governess at the court of Siam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mongkut.html (337 words)

	The Private Life of King Mongkut
		When King Mongkut left the priesthood to take up the duties of kingship, he had to resume a life which he had once forsaken.
		King Mongkut was the first Siamese monarch to break this age-old custom by issuing a proclamation permitting those ladies to resign, though it must be said that the characters he gave to those who did actually resign were not as brilliant as they might have been.
		Although the King of Siam held the Supreme Power in the Kingdom in which his commands were sacred and must be obeyed, his daily life inside the palace had to follow a routine prescribed by the palatine laws which had been handed down from the remote past.
	www.thaistudents.com /kingandi/mongkut_02.html (1256 words)

	Ayutthaya, Capital of a Kingdom, Part 21
		Mongkut was born a Prince to the Royal House of Chakri in 1804.
		Outside of the monastery, Prince Mongkut was tutored in the normal way and his father, Rama II, who was a great lover of poetry, story telling and the arts, gave Mongkut an insight into the beauty of language and fascination of scholarly knowledge.
		Mongkut Royal Prince of the purest Chakri blood, humble monk and wise Abbot with knowledge of the stars above Siam and compassion for the people of Siam the future King of Thailand King Mongkut, Rama IV, of Siam.
	www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com /ayutthaya21.html (1054 words)

	KING MONGKUT [ RAMA IV ]
		He was the second son of Phra Buddha Lertla Naphalai (King Rama II) and Queen Sri Suriyendra, whose first--born son died at birth in 1801.
		At the tender age of 12, Prince Mongkut was assigned by his royal father to take charge of the armed forces.
		He correctly calculated the time and place of a total eclipse of the sun, which occurred on August 18, 1868, and pinpointed a remote village in Prachuab Khiri Khan, on the west coast of the Gulf of Siam, as the place where it could be clearly seen.
	members.tripod.com /~tudtu/rama4.html (1105 words)

	Untitled Document
		Mongkut di principe aveva cinque anni quando suo padre ha riuscito al Trono in 1809.
		Mongkut di principe è rimasto così nel monkhood al dedicate il suo tempo ed il suo sforzo a Buddhism.
		Poiché Mongkut di Re era già competente nella lingua Inglese, era di altro membri ansioso che del Tribunale sono addestrati in questa lingua straniera.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0110523/datai/KingMongkut.html (1629 words)

	Ayutthaya, Capital of a Kingdom, Part 25
		Prince Mongkut was born as the second son in 1804; his father was King Rama II and his mother, Queen Sri Suriyendra.
		King Mongkut knew every facet of his Kingdom of Siam both from the level of the Royal Court during his youth and as a humble monk, mixing with ordinary citizens, from his time at various temples.
		Although King Mongkut did not have total success in discussions with the imperial giants (territory east of the Mae Khong River would eventually be colonized by France while vassal Malayan States would be ceded to Britain), he did protect and preserve the living body of Siam.
	www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com /ayutthaya25.html (1885 words)

	The Real Anna and the King
		His father, Rama II, had 73 children in all, but Mongkut was the crown prince, in line to inherit the throne.
		After 27 years, Rama III died and Mongkut was called back to court to be crowned as the new king.
		As the movie suggests, she was a teacher who came to Siam during Mongkut's reign to give English lessons to his wives and children.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/royal_history/16745 (444 words)

	King of Siam's Eclipse
		This was during the reign of the very same King Mongkut who figures in the book by Anna Leonowens, describing her adventures teaching at the court in Siam —; which was subsequently became The King and I.
		King Mongkut spent 27 years as a monk —; which gave him the leisure to study Latin and English, which in turn enabled him to read texts on science, geography, history, mathematics and astronomy —; and emerged as a king with a reformist mission.
		The clergyman Increase Mather perpetuated the myth of eclipses as signs of God's displeasure; yet his son, Cotton Mather, the notorious witch-hater, was remarkably skeptical about attributing divine disfavor to the simple passage of the moon between the earth and the sun.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0818almanac.htm (639 words)

	bangkok/special_exhibition.htm
		King Mongkut of the Bangkok Period, 1851-1868, was the first to collect objects for storage in a permanent place.
		Emperor Napoleon III of France sent an invitation to king Mongkut to participate in a world -class museum exhibition at Champ de Mars in Paris in 1867, which King Mongkut was pleased to accept.
		It was determined by King Chukakongkorn that the objects collected privately during the reign of King Mongkut should be exhibited at Concordia Hall, in the former clubhouse of the Royal Guards, at the royal Grand Palace.
	www.thailandmuseum.com /thaimuseum_eng/bangkok/special_exhibition.htm (1152 words)

	Untitled Document
		El príncipe Mongkut tenía cinco años de edad cuando su padre triunfó al Trono en 1809.
		Mongkut gastó más que la mitad su vida adulta en la bata amarilla de un monje de Buddhist.
		De diecisiete años de edad que príncipe Mongkut, más experimentó en el gobierno y mucho y más poderoso, él tuvo, durante mucho tiempo, sido atendido a su padre a conducir los asuntos del estado.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0110523/datas/KingMongkut.html (1623 words)

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