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Bengali Literature of Arakan

2020
Abstract Between the 16th and the 18th centuries, Middle Bengali became a major idiom of literary expression in the kingdom of Arakan. It is within the domain of this coastal kingdom, which then comprised the region of Chittagong in today’s Bangladesh, that Muslim subjects of the Buddhist kings started using the courtly vernacular ...
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The Entry and the Spread of Islam in Arakan: Historical Background of Contemporary Arakan

2018
The main objective of this paper is to explicatehow Islam came into the Arakan. Basically, this paper was chosen for thelacking of information about the Islam in Arakan in Turkish language up to the academicsphere. At the outset, it is to note that besides entering Islam in Arakan, itshould be discussed that what the pre-Islam history of Arakan is and ...
DADAN, Ali, FUAD, Abdur Rahman
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Burma and Arakan

1981
The chronicle writings of Burma are a branch of the country’s literature of great interest and value. Their accounts of Burma’s very early history do, of course, contain much myth and legend, and Western historians have resorted to searching for other forms of evidence, such as inscriptions, Chinese writings, linguistics and archaeological explorations
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The Rohingya and Arakan

The Journal of Asian Studies
Abstract Using this forum's political economy and political ecology framework, this lead article reexamines the process of identifying the Rohingya as “foreign” to Arakan as one rooted in the region's uneven development. Conflicts that the British colonial state conceptualized as primarily “communal”—such as, in this case, the ...
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Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1944
Professor E. H. Johnston's sudden death in October, 1942, was a grievous blow to Oriental research. Sir Richard Burn, called in by the authorities of Balliol College to go through his papers, found amongst them a rough manuscript article and other material on the Sanskrit inscriptions of Arakan, together with correspondence on the subject with Mr. G. H.
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The Myth of ‘Bengali Migration’ to Arakan Debunked

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Genocidal crimes don’t happen in vacuum and require groundwork from the racist and bigoted elements to state and non-state actors to prepare the support base and mobilize the dominant group to perpetrate such heinous crimes. For decades, the Buddhist majority in Myanmar has denied the very existence of the minority Rohingya people who are mostly ...
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