Singaling Hkamti ( my, ခန္တီးကလေး; my, Kantigale, script=Latn; also known as Zingalein Kamti and Zingkaling Hkamti) was a Shan state in what is today

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. It was an outlying territory, away from the main

Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the Endonym and exonym, endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. ...

area. The state was located on both sides of the

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, in what is present-day

Hkamti District Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes Naga Hills District) is a district in northern Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the town of Singkaling Hkamti. Townships The district consists of the two townships: ...

Sagaing Region Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

. Its capital was Singaling Hkamti town.

History

Singaling Hkamti was founded in 1820. It was a tributary state of the

King of Burma This is a list of the monarchs of Burma (Myanmar), covering the monarchs of all the major kingdoms that existed in the present day Burma (Myanmar). Although Burmese chronicle tradition maintains that various monarchies of Burma ( Mon, Burman, ...

until 1887, when the

Shan states The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called ''muang'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India. The term "Shan States" was firs ...

submitted to

British rule The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...

after the fall of the

Konbaung dynasty The Konbaung dynasty ( my, ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ်, ), also known as Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်) and formerly known as the Alompra dynasty (အလောင်းဘ ...

. Its inhabitants were mostly

Shan people The Shan people ( shn, တႆး; , my, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; ), also known as the Tai Long, or Tai Yai are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia. The Shan are the biggest minority of Burma (Myanmar) and primarily live in th ...

who were said to have come from

Hkamti Long Hkamti Long (also known as Khamti Long; zh, 坎底), also known as Khandigyi ( my, ခန္တီးကြီး) was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It was an outlying territory, located by the Mali River, north of Myitkyina District, awa ...

. Before the time of rule by the British the state was often raided by the

Kachin people The Kachin peoples ( Jingpo: ''Ga Hkyeng'', ; , ), more precisely the Kachin Wunpong (Jingpo: ''Jinghpaw Wunpawng'', "The Kachin Confederation") or simply Wunpong ("The Confederation"), are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin ...

. The state was integrated into

after independence from the British in 1948.

Rulers

The rulers of Singaling Hkamti bore the title ''

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''.Shan and Karenni States of Burma
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Myosas

*1820 - 1844 Sao Nyi Kaung *1844 - 1853 Sao Ai *1853 - 1882 Sao Hi *1882 - 1887 Vacant *1887 - 1892 Sao Ni Taung (b. 1861 - d. 1892) *1892 - 1893 Sao E -Regent (1st time) (b. 1856 - d. 1927) *1892 - 1894 Sao Hon (b. 1887 - d. 1894) *1894 - 1898 Ma Pu (f) (d. c.1898) *1894 - 1898 Sao E -Regent (2nd time) (s.a.) *1898 - 1927 Sao E (s.a.) *1927 - 1952 Maung Ba Thein

References

External links

The Imperial Gazetteer of India"Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan states"
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