British India – Kingdom of Siam relations
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Moreover, British India and Siam have been culturally linked for centuries, with modern India deeply influencing Thai culture. Thai borrows a substantial number of words from Sanskrit, India's classical language. Pali, which was the language of Magadha and is the medium of Theravada, is another important root of Thai vocabulary. The Anglo-Siamese War (or Anglo-Thai War[1]) was a brief state of war that existed between the English East India Company and Kingdom of Siam in 1687–88.[2] Siam officially declared war against the Company in August 1687. No peace treaty was ever signed to end the war, but the Siamese revolution of 1688 rendered the issue moot.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ Om Prakash, The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 2, Part 5: European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 289.
- ↑ "Anglo-Siamese War", in G. C. Kohn, Dictionary of Wars, rev. ed. (Routledge, 2013), p. 21.
- ↑ D. G. E. Hall, A History of South-East Asia, 4th ed. (Macmillan, 1981), pp. 392–397.
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