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THE HILL TRACTS OF ARAKAN
Maior W. GAVYNNE HUGHES, The condition of wild tribes and the country inhabited by them has of necessity from time to time attracted the...
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May 1
Notes on a series of cultural and historical articles about Arakan written between 1959 and 1966 by Mohammed A Tahir Ba Tha of Buthidaung
Derek Tonkin U Ba Tha was a Muslim scholar and banker from Buthidaung in Rakhine State who between 1959 and 1966 wrote several articles...
May 1
In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Thibaut d'Hubert In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Ālāol (fl. 1651-71), who translated...
Apr 25
Violence and Belonging: Conflict, War, and Insecurity in Arakan, 1942–1952
JACQUES P. LEIDER The decade from 1942 to 1952 was a period of abrupt political and social change in Burma’s province of Arakan (Rakhine...
Mar 31
ARAKAN’S ASCENT DURING THE MRAUK-U PERIOD
By JACQUES P. LEIDER and Kyaw Minn Htin (January 2002) Arakan is the name of a former Buddhist kingdom of Burma lying on the eastern Bay...
Mar 31
Rohingya: The Foundational Years
By Jacques P. Leider Policy Brief Series No. 123 (2020) Myanmar’s Rakhine State (‘Arakan’ until 1982) borders on Bangladesh and the Bay...
Mar 16
Arakan (Rakhine State): A Land in Conflict on Myanmar’s Western Frontier
18 December 2019 By Martin Smith, Transnational Institute (TNI) Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial...
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