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On the Evolution of Rohingya Problems in Rakhine State of Burma1
U Khin Maung Saw, Berlin | Sunday, August 09, 2009
The monsoon season in South and Southeast Asia brings catastrophes to these regions every year. Storms, cyclones and floods are yearly events which bring about loss of crops and lives and heavy human migrations, particularly in certain areas. more +
Religions in Arakan
U Khin Maung Saw | Sunday, August 09, 2009
Among the 7 Union States of Burma the Rakhine State or the Arakan is the immediate neighbour of the Subcontinent. There might have been some contacts between Arakan and the Subcontinent since the first dynasty of the Arakanese. more +
How Mrauk-U was translated into Monkeys Egg
U Khin Maung Saw, Berlin | Saturday, July 07, 2007
The kingdom of Rakhaing or Arakan was sub-divided into four regions. Northern Arakan was called Dhanyawaddy, the Ramree Island was called Ramawaddy, Thandwe Region in the south was called Dwarawaddy and the Man Aung Island was named Megawaddy. more +
Bangladesh- Breeding ground for Muslim terror
Bertil Lintner | Monday, October 21, 2002
Among the more than 60 videotapes that the American cable television network CNN obtained from al-Qaeda's archives in Afghanistan in August this year, one marked "Burma" (Myanmar) purports to show Muslim "allies" training in that country. more +
Arakan- A Promised Land
Dr. A. S. Nayaka | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Arakan, a land which cherishes Buddha's principles of moral code, tranquility, love, compassion and wisdom, has patronized Buddhism for more than two millenniums more +
Arakan around 1830 - Social Distress and Political Instability in the Early British Period
Dr. Jacques P. Leider | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The 3rd article of the Treaty of Yandabo of 1826, which sealed the end of the First Anglo-Burman War (1824-1826), stipulated that, besides the southern province of Tenasserim more +
Elephant, Slaves and Rubies- Arakans place in the trade network of the Bay of Bengal
Dr. Jacques P. Leider | Sunday, December 28, 2008
In the context of research on the trade network of the Bay of Bengal as well as in the wider frame of Southeast Asian studies, Arakan's place has largely remained a blank space more +
Background of Rohingya Problem
Kyaw Zan Tha, MA | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The territory, controlled by the Mrauk-U dynasty (1433-1785), the last dynasty in Rakhaing (Arakanese) history, stretched from Chittagong in the North to Thanlyin (Syriam) in the South more +
Wunti Nat
San Shwe Bu | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Nat worship prevailed in Arakan from the earliest times. Abundant references are made to it in all our literature. But for some mysterious reason, no particular mention more +
The Rakhaing-3
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The last chapter of the time-honoured Rakhaing realm had come to a close and there lay ahead the valley of ill fortune to pass through. Gone was the sovereignty and so was the dignity. more +
The Rakhaing-5
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The land of Rakhaing is unique in many respects because of its geography, homogeneous ethnicity, Buddhist tradition and intense nationalism; nevertheless over the past several decades more +
The Rakhaing-6
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The history of Rakhaing abounds ups and downs. The centuries-long sovereignty over portions of Bengal heightened the Rakhaing power to a climax it had never before or ever since attained more +
Broken Glass Palace Chronicle of Burma
Hla Shwe (M.A) | Sunday, December 28, 2008
I had a master degree in history from Rangoon University and I also learnt that the academic who specialized in Burma historiography has biased when they had concluded the Burmese history more +
The Mug Battalion
San Shwe Bu | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The Arakan Commissioner's office contains some very interesting and valuable records which are among the oldest in British Burma. Though they are bound together and preserved more +
Between India and Southeast Asia- Arakan, Burmas Forgotten Kingdom
Dr. Pamela Gutman | Sunday, December 28, 2008
For more a millennium the policy we know as Arakan existed as a culturally strategic border state, the only state in Southeast Asia to be connected to India by both land and sea routes more +
The Case against the separation Burma from India
U Ottama | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Burma happens to be the largest province in the India Empire with an area equal to that of Spain and Portugal combined, the countries which, it might incidentally be mentione more +
The Rise and Fall of the kingdom of Mrohaung in Arakan
D.G.E. Hall | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Arakan 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 more +
The Liberation Struggle in Arakan (1948-1982)
Abdul Mabud Khan | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Like the tribal movements of northeastern India there has been a regionalist movement in Arakan, which is not much known or published. This is partly because, Burma is ruled more +
The Serpent and the king - The Dutch-Arakanese relationship 1608-1683
Stephan Van Galen (Leiden University) | Sunday, December 28, 2008
D.G.E. Hall, the eminent historian of Southeast Asia, in his 'Studies in Dutch relations with Arakan', was the first to point out the importance of the Dutch language sources for a study more +
The Strange Murder of King Thiri-Thudhamma
M. S. Collis. | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Brother Manrique gave us two glimpses of Thiri-thudhamma, the dignified figure at the window of the audience-hall at the Paragri, and the fond father joking with his children more +
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On the Evolution of Rohingya Problems in Rakhine State of Burma1
U Khin Maung Saw, Berlin | Sunday, August 09, 2009
The monsoon season in South and Southeast Asia brings catastrophes to these regions every year. Storms, cyclones and floods are yearly events which bring about loss of crops and lives and heavy human migrations, particularly in certain areas. more +
Religions in Arakan
U Khin Maung Saw | Sunday, August 09, 2009
Among the 7 Union States of Burma the Rakhine State or the Arakan is the immediate neighbour of the Subcontinent. There might have been some contacts between Arakan and the Subcontinent since the first dynasty of the Arakanese. more +
How Mrauk-U was translated into Monkeys Egg
U Khin Maung Saw, Berlin | Saturday, July 07, 2007
The kingdom of Rakhaing or Arakan was sub-divided into four regions. Northern Arakan was called Dhanyawaddy, the Ramree Island was called Ramawaddy, Thandwe Region in the south was called Dwarawaddy and the Man Aung Island was named Megawaddy. more +
Bangladesh- Breeding ground for Muslim terror
Bertil Lintner | Monday, October 21, 2002
Among the more than 60 videotapes that the American cable television network CNN obtained from al-Qaeda's archives in Afghanistan in August this year, one marked "Burma" (Myanmar) purports to show Muslim "allies" training in that country. more +
Arakan- A Promised Land
Dr. A. S. Nayaka | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Arakan, a land which cherishes Buddha's principles of moral code, tranquility, love, compassion and wisdom, has patronized Buddhism for more than two millenniums more +
Arakan around 1830 - Social Distress and Political Instability in the Early British Period
Dr. Jacques P. Leider | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The 3rd article of the Treaty of Yandabo of 1826, which sealed the end of the First Anglo-Burman War (1824-1826), stipulated that, besides the southern province of Tenasserim more +
Elephant, Slaves and Rubies- Arakans place in the trade network of the Bay of Bengal
Dr. Jacques P. Leider | Sunday, December 28, 2008
In the context of research on the trade network of the Bay of Bengal as well as in the wider frame of Southeast Asian studies, Arakan's place has largely remained a blank space more +
Background of Rohingya Problem
Kyaw Zan Tha, MA | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The territory, controlled by the Mrauk-U dynasty (1433-1785), the last dynasty in Rakhaing (Arakanese) history, stretched from Chittagong in the North to Thanlyin (Syriam) in the South more +
Wunti Nat
San Shwe Bu | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Nat worship prevailed in Arakan from the earliest times. Abundant references are made to it in all our literature. But for some mysterious reason, no particular mention more +
The Rakhaing-3
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The last chapter of the time-honoured Rakhaing realm had come to a close and there lay ahead the valley of ill fortune to pass through. Gone was the sovereignty and so was the dignity. more +
The Rakhaing-5
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The land of Rakhaing is unique in many respects because of its geography, homogeneous ethnicity, Buddhist tradition and intense nationalism; nevertheless over the past several decades more +
The Rakhaing-6
Tha Hla | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The history of Rakhaing abounds ups and downs. The centuries-long sovereignty over portions of Bengal heightened the Rakhaing power to a climax it had never before or ever since attained more +
Broken Glass Palace Chronicle of Burma
Hla Shwe (M.A) | Sunday, December 28, 2008
I had a master degree in history from Rangoon University and I also learnt that the academic who specialized in Burma historiography has biased when they had concluded the Burmese history more +
The Mug Battalion
San Shwe Bu | Sunday, December 28, 2008
The Arakan Commissioner's office contains some very interesting and valuable records which are among the oldest in British Burma. Though they are bound together and preserved more +
Between India and Southeast Asia- Arakan, Burmas Forgotten Kingdom
Dr. Pamela Gutman | Sunday, December 28, 2008
For more a millennium the policy we know as Arakan existed as a culturally strategic border state, the only state in Southeast Asia to be connected to India by both land and sea routes more +
The Case against the separation Burma from India
U Ottama | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Burma happens to be the largest province in the India Empire with an area equal to that of Spain and Portugal combined, the countries which, it might incidentally be mentione more +
The Rise and Fall of the kingdom of Mrohaung in Arakan
D.G.E. Hall | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Arakan 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 more +
The Liberation Struggle in Arakan (1948-1982)
Abdul Mabud Khan | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Like the tribal movements of northeastern India there has been a regionalist movement in Arakan, which is not much known or published. This is partly because, Burma is ruled more +
The Serpent and the king - The Dutch-Arakanese relationship 1608-1683
Stephan Van Galen (Leiden University) | Sunday, December 28, 2008
D.G.E. Hall, the eminent historian of Southeast Asia, in his 'Studies in Dutch relations with Arakan', was the first to point out the importance of the Dutch language sources for a study more +
The Strange Murder of King Thiri-Thudhamma
M. S. Collis. | Sunday, December 28, 2008
Brother Manrique gave us two glimpses of Thiri-thudhamma, the dignified figure at the window of the audience-hall at the Paragri, and the fond father joking with his children more +
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