Sanda Thudhamma

Sanda Thudamma or Shrichandra Sudhormo was an Arakanese king of the Mrauk U Kingdom. Widely recognised as a major controversial figure among Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent, several historians and authors described him as an immoral ruler and womanizer. His atrocities include the betrayal the Mughal prince and Governor of Bengal Subah, Shah Shuja, murder of his three sons, rape and forced suicide of his daughter Banu Begum, who was Islamically married to one of Emperor Aurangzeb's son, and imprisonment of the pregnant daughter of King Narapdigyi who was starved to death.

Sanda Thudhamma Raza စန္ဒသုဓမ္မရာဇာ
King of Arakan
Reign	c. May 1652 - 11 June 1674
Predecessor	Thado of Mrauk-U
Successor	Thiri Thuriya
Born	1637
Died	1684 (aged 47) Mrauk U
Consort	Yadanar Piya
Issue	Thiri Thuriya,Thuwanna Kalya
Full name Shwenanthakhin Sanda Thudhamma Raza ရွှေနန်းသခင် စန္ဒသုဓမ္မရာဇာ
House	Narapatigyi
Father	Thado of Mrauk-U
Mother	Yadanar Kounmaryi
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

The famous Bengali poet Syed Alaol was the poet in his court. He translated Tohfa at the request of Shrichondro Sudhormo or Sanda Thudhamma.

Prince Magan Thakur was the foster-son of the sister of King Shrichondro Sudhormo. Saiyad Muhammad Musa was the army chief of King Shrichondro Sudhormo.

In 1664, emperor Aurangzeb appointed Shaista Khan of Bengal to capture Sanda Thudamma. Shaista Khan eliminated Portuguese and Arakanese pirates from the region, and in 1666 recaptured the port of Chittagong from the Arakanese king, Sanda Thudhamma. Chittagong remained a key port throughout Mughal rule.[1]

References

1. Markovits, Claude, ed. (2004) [First published 1994 as Histoire de l'Inde Moderne]. A History of Modern India, 1480–1950 (2nd ed.). London: Anthem Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-84331-004-4. Shayista Khan ... was appointed [Bengal's] governor in 1664 and swept the region clean of Portuguese and Arakanese pirates ... in 1666, he recaptured the port of Chittagong ... from the king of Arakan. A strategic outpost, Chittagong would remain the principal commercial port of call before entering the waters of the delta.

Bibliography

• Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
• Myat Soe, ed. (1964). Myanma Swezon Kyan (in Burmese). 9 (1 ed.). Yangon: Sarpay Beikman.
• Myint-U, Thant (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps—Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6.
• Sandamala Linkara, Ashin (1931). Rakhine Yazawinthit Kyan (in Burmese). 1–2 (1997 ed.). Yangon: Tetlan Sarpay.

See also

• Mrauk U Kingdom
• History of Rakhine