Relatively free from foreign influence, the Arakan Army is poised to carve out a large autonomous statelet in western Myanmar ...

History also reminds us that India is the principal successor state to the British Indian Empire—and that Northeast India ...

Since the fall of Mrauk-U and the loss of Arakan sovereignty in 1784 CE, previous generations of Arakanese revolutionaries have devoted their lives to one and only one objective: the liberation of ...

The Buddhist Rakhine or Arakanese trace their history back to the Arakanese kingdom at the Bay of Bengal which was conquered by the Burmese in 1784. Ethnic minorities make up around 40% of the ...

Immediately following independence, a group of Arakanese Muslims went on the political offensive, pushing for the integration of Maungdaw and Buthidaung into what was then known as East Pakistan.

During the rule of the Palas, Buddhism experienced changes including the introduction of Tantricism. Different schools of ...

On February 6, India’s ministry of external affairs (MEA) issued an advisory for Indian nationals to not travel to western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Those based there have been urged to leave ...

Neither the Mons in the south nor the Arakanese on the western coastal strip have a state of their own, but both groups have developed high cultures in the past, supplied many leaders to the Civil ...

He adds, "The Mughal conquest of Chittagong drove the Arakanese beyond the hill ranges, and vacated places were occupied by new settlers from within or outside the district. The Mughal government ...

Also dissatisfied with their position today are the Arakanese, who inhabit. Burma's western seaboard nearest to India. Cut off from the rest of the country by a high mountain range, the Arakanese ...