One of the rationales underlying the persecution of the Rohingya by the Burmese state is that they are branded  “illegal...

Preface: Culture is an inexplicably meaningful word almost defying any definition. It is the visible manifestation of the entire gamut...

Preface: After a little over two centuries under colonial rule Arakan --- the once flourishing maritime Muslim Sultanat extending from...

Introduction: ARAKAN, once a sovereign and independent State, is now one of the states of the Union of Burma. The...

Summary: Arakan, Past, Present, Future: A Resume Of Two Campaigns For Its Development is a historical book written by John...

Coins Found In Arakan Mr. Htoon Aung Gyaw, Barrister - at - Law and certain other private collectors of Akyab...

Introduction: Southeast Asianists have, over the past half-century, discussed in great detail issues related to the emergence of the state...

Burmese Outpost is written by Anthony Irwin  to the Mussulman of Arakanese and their officer who fought during Second World...

Abstract: This article is an account on how the internationally-sustained discourse of ‘democratic transition’ is masking the complexity of the...

MINSTRY OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, YANGON UNIVERSITY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, FIRST YEAR TEXT BOOK, Module No. Geog 1004-Geography...

Introduction: History is the mirror of life and measure of its performance. It reflects human life in all its passing...

Introduction: The history of Arakan or the Rakhine State of Myanmar is matchless due to various, partly, very complex, factors....

An outline of the rule of King Maṅḥ Co Mvan can be sketched as follows. He became king in 1404,...

Early Article Reprint 1: Francis Buchanan published his “A Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma...

Introduction: History says that the early Muslims had entered Arakan firstly through its coastal parts and secondly through its mountain...

Introduction: During the last few years, I came across some historical works on the Rohingya history by some native Rohingyas...

I wrote about Rakhaing Kaman Muslims, the descendants of Shah Shujah's followers in a previous article entitled "Shah Shujah in...

Summary: “I shall now add three dialects, spoken in the Burma empire, but evidently derived from the language of the...

Summary: In the Classical Journal for September and December 1811, the translation and comparasion of Rohingya (Rooinga) commonly used words...

Summary: In East India on the Ganges in Arakan, these two languages are the mixture of the neighbouring, Rooinga or...