De Caprariis, LucaWelsh, BridgetDavenport, Quinlan Connor2024-09-242024-09-242019Davenport, Quinlan Connor. "The Binational State The Dilema in Defining Thai Nationalism & the Two National Identities of Siam". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2019.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/308Thesis (B.A. in History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2019.Thai History has been examined in numerous ways, by a wide range of scholars, over several decades. This undergraduate history thesis is in no way intended to be a revisionist study of the period in question. What I hope this thesis does make clear, however, is a trend not often considered by historians working on the subject. The idea of two national identities is not uniquely my own. Most research on the origin of Thai nationalism resolves the dilemma of defining the national identity by suggesting the defeat of one of these national models. I would disagree with this simplification, as it gives too much importance to the political parties that introduced these national identities, and not enough to the philosophical and historical background of the identities. In this thesis I do not give names to these two identities, instead referring to the political party or faction that supported them at any given time; most significantly the Monarchist and Revolutionary divide. This was intentional, as the focus of this thesis is on this period, and not the continued evolution of these national models. This thesis was also not intended to criticize the royal family or any monarch of the Chakri dynasty, and has avoided explicitly covering topics that are currently censored by the Thai government. Despite these two limitations, this thesis endeavors to go through the narratives of the two national identities from the start of the reign of King Vajiravudh to the abdication of his successor, King Prajadhipok, and to analyze the points in which these two identities interacted and how they eventually came to conflict The County will have complete independence; the people will be safe from danger; everyone will have work and therefore not starve; everyone will have equal rights, and none will be servants or slaves of the royalty - Manifesto of the People’s Party .vi, 58 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Nationalism and collective memoryThesis