Mongpawn

Mongpawn (also spelt Möngpawn), also known as Maingpun (Burmese: မိုင်းပွန်), was a Shan state in what is today Burma.

According to tradition a predecessor state in the area was named Rajjavadi.

Historically Mongpawn played an important part before the British annexation of Upper Burma, at the time of the Burmese resistance movement 1885–95.

[1] The rulers of Mongpawn bore the title of Myoza and from 1887, Saopha.

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The ruler of Mongpawn, first in the front row from the left, at the Delhi Durbar in 1903