Place · royal exile residence · India
Thibaw Palace, Ratnagiri
Also known as King Thibaw of Burma in exile, Ratnagiri, Thibaw Palace, Thibaw Palace — Ratnagiri
The house at Ratnagiri on the Konkan coast where Thibaw, the last king of Burma, lived out thirty years of exile after the annexation of 1885, with his queen Supayalat, his daughters and a Company pension. He was deported within days of the British entering Mandalay and never returned.
- Date
- 1886–1916
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 16.992, 73.312
Worth knowing
It is the counterpart to Bahadur Shah Zafar in Rangoon: each empire's last monarch spent his final years on the other's coast under the same administration. One of Thibaw's daughters married an Indian commoner from Ratnagiri and her descendants still live in the town; the building is now a museum, restored after decades as a government office.
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- AnalogueBahādur Shāh Zafar
Thibaw of Burma was deported to Ratnagiri in 1885 and Bahadur Shah Zafar to Rangoon in 1858, so each empire's last monarch spent his final years on the other's coast under the same administration. Both were buried where they died, both graves were neglected, and both are now maintained as memorials by governments that did not exist when they were dug.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Thibaw Min”. Sudha Shah, The King in Exile: The Fall of the Royal Family of Burma (2012); Maharashtra State Gazetteer, Ratnagiri district.
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