Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma: Another interpretation of an early modern society in Southeast Asia - Paperbackby Teruko Saito (Author) Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuable documents that show the socioeconomic conditions of the time. Through the reading of more than 3,000 local historical documents, the author vividly reflects specific ups and downs of the lives of ordinary people in early modern