How Thailand resisted colonization.

How Thailand resisted colonization. Even in the 1800s the story about an invasion had to be sold to onlookers for legitimacy. “Mongkut’s discovery of the Stele was comparable to finding a lost Magna Carta at just the right moment.” Siam used the Ramkhamhaeng Stele as proof of a sophisticated literary and legal tradition, to make colonial “civilizing” pretexts harder to sell. ~ learn more