A study of controlling local communities in the pre-modern period--the case of the Konbaung monarchy--

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As most of the local communities in the early Konbaung period were constituted of the Ahumdan (crown service group members) and the Athi (the common people), who were each governed by different systems comprising networks of individual relationships based on the personalities of their headmen, the social interests of the two groups did not always match. Though a villager's daily life in the community went on in the same cycle, his/her psychological cohesion or identification with the village as a social unit was secondary. Therefore, ‘we’ consciousness was also unstable and a sense of ethnicity had not been formed.