The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.121
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.121
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The kingship was now like overripe fruit, ready to fall at the first touch. A crop of *minlaung* (pretenders) sprang up. Dacoity was rampant. A colony of Gwe¹ (i.e. Wa tribesmen) at Okpo, Mandalay district, were joined by captives at Madaya near by, built a stockade, and lorded it over the district, plundering whom they pleased. People took to migrating in hundreds to Arakan, complaining of drunkenness in the palace and famine in the villages.²