Description: In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history.
Review Quotes: "The Return of the Galon King is a valuable addition not just to the study of Burma, but also the study of Southeast Asian history as a whole."--Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient