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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 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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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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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 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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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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Lending a Helping Hand to Arakan
2020The Arakanese Muslims (Rohingya), considered by the UN to be the world’s most persecuted minority, were subjected to horrific ethnic cleansing in August 2017. In those critical days, the Republic of Turkey, in a forceful move, called for Bangladesh to “open its doors.” The decisive difference in Turkey’s response from that of others was its generosity ...
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Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1944Professor 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, 2019Genocidal 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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The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Mrohaung in Arakan
1981Arakan stretches for some 350 miles along the eastern shore of the Bay of Bengal to the south of the Chittagong division of East Bengal. It is separated from Burma by a long, deep range of mountains, the Arakan Yoma, through which there are only two serviceable passes, the An connecting with Minbu on the west bank of the Irrawaddy, and the Taungup ...
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A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms. The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in western Burma, following a failed ...
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