Mandalay (poem)
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"Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British I
Moulmein from the Great Pagoda, Samuel Bourne, 1870
An "old Moulmein pagoda", a Buddhist stupa on a hilltop at Mawlamyine
"Where the old flotilla lay". British soldiers disembarking from paddle steamers in Mandalay on 28 November 1885 during the Third Anglo-Burmese War
The British at the palace in Mandalay in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, The Illustrated London News, 1887
Mandalay
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Mandalay is the second-largest city in Myanmar, after Yangon. It is located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, 631 km north of Yangon. In 2014, the city had a population of 1,225,553.
Mandalay (poem)
…as "broad" for "girl", which were disliked by Kipling's family. Bertolt Brecht's "Mandalay Song", set to music by Kurt Weill, alludes to the poem. The Mandalay referred to in this poem was the sometime capital city of Burma, which was part of British India from 1886 to 1937, and a separate British colony from…
Mandalay The worship of Buddha
Ku Tho Taw Pagoda & Sandar Muni Pagoda, Mandalay
U Bein Bridge, Mandalay
Zay Cho Time Tower