WI: Burmese monarchy restoration?

[La Rouge Beret]

After the British deposed King Thibaw and his court following the third Anglo Burmese war in 1885, an insurgency developed that took roughly a decade to quell. So the POD would be the insurgency would be stronger and in a way to placate the Burmese they install a King. Even today if you have the opportunity to talk to the Burmans or the minorities it is still common for people to talk positively about the rule of the Burmese kings. What do you think the effect would be on modern day Burma/Myanmar?

 

[Alex Richards]

Hmmm well I shall presume that this is essentially the creation of a Princley State occupying Modern Burma, minus Rangoon and possibly Arakan as well.

It's certainly not going to get Burma into India, so they'll probably just reunited Rangoon/Arakan with Burma post-Independence. A lot depends on if WWII happens as OTL, and what the Japanese do if it does.

 

[La Rouge Beret]

Yup that was what I was thinking of another princely state in Upper Burma. At this stage I would work under the assumption that WW2 unfolds the same as in OTL... what I cannot work out is what Japan's reaction to the princely state would be - the court would retreat westward with the 14th Army. But after that, no idea.

 

[Alex Richards]

Yup that was what I was thinking of another princely state in Upper Burma. At this stage I would work under the assumption that WW2 unfolds the same as in OTL... what I cannot work out is what Japan's reaction to the princely state would be - the court would retreat westward with the 14th Army. But after that, no idea.

Well, in Indochina the Japanese kept the various French puppet rulers in place right the way up to 1945. I imagine that here they do roughly the same, declare the 'Empire of the Shan State' or something similar with some distant relative on the throne.