Intelligence, Subterfuge and History A Note on the Vickery-Ubonsri Fragment
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Dec 1, 2021
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The document that Michael Vickery and Ubonsri Atthaphan discovered in the 1970s, which was called a “Fragment” (ฉะบับปลีก, chabap plik), is different from other Siamese historical texts in both form and content. It suggests that early Ayutthaya had a network of intelligence gathering and espionage, and that history in the making was recorded in some detail.
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Baker, C., & Pasuk Phongpaichit. (2021). Intelligence, Subterfuge and History: A Note on the Vickery-Ubonsri Fragment. The Journal of the Siam Society, 109(2), 159–168. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pub_jss/article/view/252162
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Baker, Chris and Pasuk Phongpaichit. 2018. “The Vajiranāṇa Library chronicle: A tribute to Michael Vickery,” Journal of the Siam Society, 106: 143–170.
Charnvit Kasetsiri. 1979. “Thai historiography from ancient times to the modern period,” in A. Reid and D. Marr, Perception of the Past in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Heinemann, pp. 156–170, revised and reprinted in Charnvit, Studies in Thai and Southeast Asian Histories, Bangkok: Foundation for the Promotion of Social Science and Humanities Textbooks Project and Toyota Thailand Foundation, 2015, pp. 4–24.
Cushman, Richard D. (tr.). 2000. The Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya, Bangkok: Siam Society.
Damrong Rajanubhab, Prince. 2001. Our Wars with the Burmese: Thai-Burmese Conflict 1539–1767. Bangkok: White Lotus.
Pakorn Songmuang. 1996. “Kanwikhro phongsawadan krung si ayutthaya chabap ho phra samut wachiranyan” [An Analytical Study of the Ayutthaya Chronicle, a Document of the Vachirayan Archives], MA thesis, Srinakharinwirot University.
Phraratcha phongsawadan krung kao chabap luang prasoet [Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya, Luang Prasoet Edition], Bangkok: Saengdao, 2001.
Santi Pakdeekham. 2015. “Silajaruek khun sichaiyaratmongkhonthep” [Khun Sichaiya Ratmongkhonthep inscription], in Sapjampa phiphithaphan sapjampa jangwat lopburi [Sap Champa Museum Lop Buri], Bangkok: Amarin.
Thongchai Winichakul. 2011. “Siam’s colonial conditions and the birth of Thai history,” in Volker Grabowsky (ed.), Southeast Asian Historiography: Unravelling the Myths (Bangkok: River Books).
Ubonsri Atthapan. 1981. “Kan chamra phraratchaphongsawadan nai ratchasamai phrabat somdet phraphutthayotfa julalok” [The revision of chronicles during the reign of King Rama I], MA thesis, Silpakorn University.
Vickery, Michael. 1977. “The 2/K.125 Fragment, a lost chronicle of Ayutthaya,” Journal of the Siam Society, 65, 1: 1–80.
Vickery, Michael. 2010. “Cambodia and its neighbours in the 15th century,” in Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen (eds.), Southeast Asia in the fifteenth century: the China factor, Singapore and Hong Kong: NUS Press and Hong Kong University Press, 271–303.
Watanyu Fakthong. 2011. “Jaruek khun si chaiyarat mongkhonthep” [Inscription of Khun Si Chaiyarat Mongkhonthep] in 100 ekkasan samkhan: sapphasara prawatisat thai lamdap thi 7 [100 key documents: essence of Thai history, no. 7], Bangkok: Thailand Research Fund, 29–53.
Winai Pongsripian. 1996. “Phrarachaphongsawadan krung si ayutthaya chabap plik mai lek 2/k 104 ton chabap khong ho phra samut wachirayan” [Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya fragment no. 2/k, original manuscript from the Vajirayana Library], in Winai, ed., Khwam yokyon khong prawatisat [The complexity of history]. Bangkok, Thai Historical Commission, pp. 173–338.
Winai Pongsripian. 2012. “Phrarachaphongsawadan krung si ayutthaya chabap ho phra samut wachirayan (chabap plik mai lek tabian 222 2/k 104)” [Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya, Wachirayan Edition: the 222 2/k 104 fragment], 100 ekkasan samkhan: sapphasara prawatisat thai lamdap thi 13 [100 key documents on Thai history, no. 13], Bangkok: Thailand Research Fund.
Wolters, O.W. 2008. “Ayudhyā and the rearward part of the world” in Wolters, Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays, ed. Craig J. Reynolds, pp. 149–164, Ithaca: Cornell University.
Wyatt, David K. and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo. 1995. The Chiang Mai Chronicle, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books.
Wyatt, David. K. (tr. and ed.). 1994. The Nan Chronicle, Ithaca, NY: Cornell SEAP.
Wyatt, David. K. 1976. “The chronology of Nan history, A.D. 1320–1598.” Journal of the Siam Society, 64, 2: 202–206.