Donation by the Family of Chamkad Balankura to the Pridi Banomyong Library, Thammasat University
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Seri Thai movement, Chamkad Balankura, Mrs. Chalob-chalai Balankura, Pridi Banomyong Library, Thammasat UniversityAbstract
After the death in 2017 at age 100 of Mrs. Chalobchalai Balankura, widow of Chamkad Balankura, the personal library of the eminent Free Thai (Seri Thai) activist Chamkad Balankura was donated by his family to the Thammasat University Library in Bangkok. Chamkad Balankura died in China in 1943 at age 28 as an envoy sent by Pridi Banomyong, the Thai Regent, for the Seri Thai movement. 958 volumes from his personal collection are now shelved in the Rare Books Room of the Pridi Banomyong Library, Thammasat University. Students and lecturers benefit from this varied collection of English, German, and French nonfiction and literature which in their entirety give an intellectual portrait of the ideas and cultural ideals that may have inspired Khun Chamkad’s wartime efforts to liberate his homeland. The aim of this article is to make international researchers more aware of these resources that may potentially add to a general understanding of the intellectual motives and contexts of one of the distinguished protagonists of the Seri Thai movement. Future research on Chamkad Balankura and the Seri Thai movement might take into account this documentation now available for scholarly investigation at the Thammasat University Library.
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