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Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh, Rama VI, was king of Siam from 1910 to 1925, educated at Sandhurst and Oxford. He promoted a royalist Thai nationalism, founded the Wild Tiger Corps, introduced surnames and compulsory primary education, and founded Chulalongkorn University. He brought Siam into the First World War on the Allied side in 1917, which helped it revise its unequal treaties, but his spending and favourites alienated officials.
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