Siam’s king toured colonies to copy imperial models

Evidence

Battye nicely shows that the purpose of the young monarch’s visits to Batavia and Singapore in 1870 and to India in 1872 was, in Chulalongkorn’s own sweet words, ‘selecting what may be safe models.’ — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 426

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 488; Shared bureaucratic pilgrimage transforms colonial states into national states — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 448

Related

• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models #exemplifies (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 488
• Shared bureaucratic pilgrimage transforms colonial states into national states #exemplifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 448