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India beyond the Ganges: Defining Arakanese Buddhism in Persianate colonial Bengal [PDF]
In the late eighteenth century a Scotsman returned from Bengal with one of the largest private libraries of Persian texts collected in the Subcontinent. Among those manuscripts were several volumes of translations of Arakanese and Pali texts into Persian, as well as quasi ethnographic accounts on Buddhism as it was practiced in what is seen today as ...
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Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World. Edited by Iselin Frydenlund and Michael JerrysonMyanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear. By John Clifford Holt [PDF]
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Amitav Ghosh and the ‘Pizza-Effect’: Re-discovering Shared Littoral Literature and Heritage [PDF]
This article focuses on two cartographically estranged places which continue to be historically concomitant—lower deltaic Bengal and Burma. The aim of the paper is to do a comparative ‘pizza effect’ study using contemporary Anglophone writings by Amitav ...
Amrita DasGupta, Tathagata Dutta
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L’expression du particularisme arakanais dans la Birmanie contemporaine
In Arakan, an ancient independent Buddhist kingdom and one of the seven states of modern Burma, the town of Mrauk U, the capital city of the last Arakanese dynasty (1430-1785), has undergone important changes under the military regime in power since 1988,
Alexandra de Mersan
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L’arakanisation d’Arakan : les racines d’un nouvel exode ?
The conflict opposing Buddhist and Muslim populations in Rakhine State (Arakan) since June 2012 is different from the previous ones for its national knock-on effects and a generalization of the confrontations to the Muslim populations of Myanmar ...
Maxime Boutry
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In Arakan, sickness-related conceptions and therapeutic practices issuing from Theravada Buddhism, astrology, spirits cult and medicine form a meaningful and hierarchical whole.
Céline Coderey
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Comment les musulmans d’Arakan sont-ils devenus étrangers à l’Arakan ?
In June 2012 as Burma (or Myanmar) launched into its political transition, the west of the country (the State of Arakan or Rakhine State) became embroiled in an outbreak of murderous violence between Muslim and Buddhist population groups.
Alexandra de Mersan
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Learning that I was working on Arakanese tutelary divinities, the historian Jacques Leider kindly introduced me to an ancient manuscript in the Indochinese collection (Fonds Indochinois) of the National Library in Paris.
Alexandra de Mersan
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