U Ba Pe is the second and current president of the Republic of Burma. He is the leader of the right-wing People's Party and its ideologically diverse parliamentary coalition, which is known as the Five Flowers Alliance. Ba Pe has been de facto leader of the right-wing tendency of the Burmese independence movement since the late 1910s. After his ...

The pro-constitution United GCBA of U Ba Pe emerged as the largest bloc in the House of Representatives, winning 46 seats. However, few parties were willing to work with U Ba Pe, [3] and the Governor invited Ba Maw to form a government, [4] …

Sir Ba U (Burmese: ဘဦး, pronounced [ba̰ ʔú]; 26 May 1887 – 9 November 1963), was a Burmese politician and lawyer. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma from 1948 to 1952, [1] and the second president of Burma from 16 March 1952 to 13 March 1957.

The Nationalist Party (Burmese: အမျိုးသားပါတီ) was a political party in Burma in the 1920s led by U Pu and U Ba Pe. The party was a successor to the 21 Party led by U Ba Pe, which had emerged as the largest in the 1922 elections after winning 28 seats, but had not been able to form a government. [1] .

Formed ahead of the 1930 election, the Pyithu Pyithar Ahphwe (the People's Party) was an attempt by U Ba Pe and the Nationalist Party to diversify their base of support, moving away from hard-line ethnic nationalism aimed at the middle class, towards a broader populist agenda.

President U Ba Pe and his administration has made repairing the Ministers' Building (as well as renovating Ripon Hall) one of their foremost national prestige projects. The third and final branch is the Judiciary, known as the Supreme Court of Burma.

A prominent figure in the early 20th-century history of Burmese nationalism, Ba Pe was a founding member of the Young Men's Buddhist Association in 1906 and also established Thuriya (The Sun), one of the most important Burmese (Myanmar) language …

The Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA; Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကလျာဏယုဝအသင်း) is a Buddhist civil society organisation in Burma. The YMBA was founded in Rangoon in 1906 as a federation of lay Buddhist groups dating back to 1898, with prominent founders including Ba Pe, Sir Maung Gyi and Dr. Ba Yin.

U Ba Pe, a leading voice in the nationalist movement, called for the design to incorporate elements based on the pagodas and shrines of Bagan. The Europeans argued that it was inappropriate for civic buildings to use religious design elements due …

Focusing on the under-examined Islamophobic riots that broke out countrywide in 1938, my research reveals that a nascent fascist movement used Muslims as a scapegoat for political and economic crisis.