A Walking Tour Bangkok. Sketches of the city’s architectural treasures

After 1858, when India became a British crown colony, a number of Indians decided to move to Bangkok rather than stay in their own country under British rule.

The second half of the twentieth century saw uncontrolled urban expansion, particularly to the east. Bangkok in 1900 was about 13 square kilometres, but by 1980 had ballooned to 330 square kilometres,

Rama I then moved the capital, which was known to Westerners as Bancok, or the village of the wild plum