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24 HIKAYAT PATANI
to deal with the constituent districts of Patani on an individual basis.
The most serious subsequent troubles occurred only in 1901—2, mainly
in response to a new, concerted effort on the part of the Thai Ministry
of the Interior to gain full control over the administration and revenues
of the districts of Patani. Resistance to the Thai government collapsed
with the exile of the governor, Abdul Kader, to Phitsanulok in northern
Thailand. From that point onward, Patani rapidly was integrated into
the provincial administration of the kingdom, as Bangkok replaced the
Malay governors of the seven districts with Thai when they died or
retired.131 And scarcely the memory of Patani’s past remains today.
131 Prawat, paras. 57—61.
