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Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng

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Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng
Portrait of Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng
Saopha of Kengtung State
Reign1896 - 1935
Coronation1895
SuccessorSao Sailong
Born1875
Died1935 (1936) (aged 60)
ConsortSix wives
Issue19 children, including Sao Saimong, Sao Nang Sukantha
MotherThuwunna Mahadewi
ReligionTheravada Buddhism
Kawng Kiao Intaleng (seated, second from left) at the Delhi Durbar in 1903

Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng succeeded his brother to become the 53rd ruler (Sawbwa) of the Shan state of Kengtung in 1895. He, his first wife, and his sister, Princess Tip Htila, all attended the Delhi Durbar in 1903 in a party of Shan princes guided by J. G. Scott. After this journey, in 1905, he built a new palace in Imperial Indian style at his capital, Kengtung. He was a popular and capable ruler, and abolished domestic slavery in the state. He died in 1935.

The Kengtung State Chronicle lists his six wives and nineteen children. The politician and scholar Sao Sāimöng was one of his sons.


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  • Andrew Marshall, The Trouser People: a Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire. London: Penguin; Washington: Counterpoint, 2002. ISBN 978-1-58243-120-8
  • Sao Sāimöng Mangrāi, The Pādaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981. ISBN 978-0-89148-020-4