Greater Thai Movement(01) Luang Vichitr Vadakarn

Greater Thai Movement(01)

In the meantime, during the first Administration of  PM Phibunsonggram (in the period between 1938 to 1944), there existed also a racial and cultural movement in Thailand. This was a “Greater Thai Movement” or “Pan-Thaiism” which had developed after the 1932 revolution.

Luang Vichitr Vadakarn

 Director-General of the Department of Fine Arts

The originator and chief protagonist of this movement

This movement aimed at incorporating into the Kingdom of Thailand all territories inhabited by peoples of T’ai origin. The areas principally involved were the Lao protectorate of French Indo-China, the Shan States of Burma, parts of Yunnan in China and Tonkin in French Indo-China. Carried to its logical extreme the demands could even have included Assam in British India.