The present book consists of <i>Khamhaikan Chao Angwa</i> ("Reply of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inwa" class="extiw" title="w:Inwa">Angwa</a> Person"), being a record of a reply given by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/th:%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%9B%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%99" class="extiw" title="w:th:โป่มะยุง่วน">Po Ma Yu Nguan</a> (Burmese: ဗိုလ်မြို့ဝန်), Burmese governor-general of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai_Province" class="extiw" title="w:Chiang Mai Province">Chiang Mai</a>, who was arrested and taken to Bangkok in the Year of the Monkey, 2331 BE (1788/79 CE), and was interrogated about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konbaung_dynasty" class="extiw" title="w:Konbaung dynasty">Konbaung dynasty</a>. The author(s) of this record and the date of recording are not known. The work was first printed here.
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โบราณคดีสโมสร (ผู้รวบรวม). (๒๔๕๘). <i>คำให้การชาวอังวะ</i>. กรุงเทพฯ: โรงพิมพ์เจริญผล. (พิมพ์แจกในงานศพหม่อมเอมในพระเจ้าบรมวงษ์เธอ กรมขุนพิทยลาภพฤฒิธาดา พ.ศ. ๒๔๕๘).