Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta

in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta

More than thirty years later

Another is the way it brings together the work of a cross section of scholars (historians

to reveal the many uses of the Cambodian past(s)

Kukrit Pramoj (1911–1995)

Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand Literary Criticism in the Satipaṭṭhāna SuttaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most