Editing U Nu (section)

== Secondary Literature in English ==

* Su, Khine Thant (2022). "Buddhist Socialism and National Identity in Colonial and Postwar Burma: An Analysis of U Nu's Political Thought". In: Galway, Matthew, & Marc H. Opper (Eds), ''Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia'': 107–136. ANU Press. {{annotation|Open-access chapter tracing the evolution of Nu's discourse on morality and Buddhist socialism from the Nagani Book Club period through his 1958 break with Marxism.}}
* Frasch, Tilman (2013). "The Relic and the Rule of Righteousness: Reflections on U Nu's Dhammavijaya". In: Whalen-Bridge, John, & Pattana Kitiarsa (Eds), ''Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement'': 115–138. Palgrave Macmillan. {{annotation|A critical reassessment of Nu's political use of Buddha relics between 1949 and 1957, arguing that ''dhammavijaya'' was a colonial-era innovation rather than a straightforward revival of precolonial kingship.}}
* Butwell, Richard (1963). ''U Nu of Burma''. Stanford University Press. {{annotation|The standard political biography, based on extensive interviews with Nu and his AFPFL colleagues; the fullest documented account of his life and government through the early 1960s.}}
* Trager, Frank N. (1959). "Political Divorce in Burma". ''Foreign Affairs'' 37.2: 317–327. {{annotation|A contemporary analysis of the 1958 AFPFL split, including the ideological dimension of Nu's dispute with Ba Swe and Kyaw Nyein over the relationship between Marxism and Buddhism.}}
* Sarkisyanz, Manuel (1965). ''Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution''. Martinus Nijhoff. {{annotation|The foundational, exhaustively documented study of Buddhist political ideas in Burma, situating Nu's synthesis within a longer indigenous tradition of Buddhist kingship and millenarianism.}}
* Sarkisyanz, Manuel (1961). "On the Place of U Nu's Buddhist Socialism in Burma's History of Ideas". ''Studies on Asia'' 2.1: 53–62. {{annotation|A concise precursor to Sarkisyanz's 1965 monograph, arguing that Nu's Buddhist socialism was a modernized expression of an indigenous Ashokan ideal of kingship.}}
* Totten, George O. (1960). "Buddhism and Socialism in Japan and Burma". ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 2.3: 293–304. {{annotation|A comparative treatment that includes an extended paraphrase and quotation of Nu's 1958 speech dissecting Marxism, situating it within a broader account of Buddhist-socialist relations in Asia.}}