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The Issue of Illegal Entry of "Kular" into Rakhine
News Article Translation GAN | September 21, 2025 Original Text (photocrd) The GAN is delighted to share an article written by Ramma...
Sep 21, 20252 min read
Arakan’s Vision: Trade as a Pathway to Prosperity and Cooperation with Bangladesh
By GAN Shortread: Opinions August 16, 2025 Locations of Arakan...
Aug 16, 20254 min read
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...
May 1, 20241 min read
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, 20241 min read
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...
May 1, 20241 min read
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...
Apr 25, 20241 min read
King Maṅḥ Co Mvan’s Exile in Bengal: Legend, History, and Context
By JACQUES P. LEIDER and Kyaw Minn Htin (January 2002) An outline of the rule of King Maṅḥ Co Mvan can be sketched as follows. He became...
Mar 31, 20241 min read
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 31, 20241 min read
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...
Mar 16, 20241 min read
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