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Volume I, Number 1 Autumn 2003

Contents

 

COVER, PUBLICATION DETAILS, CONTENTS PDF FILE (70KB)

 

ARTICLES, TRAVELS, & NOTES

 

1                OLIVER B. POLLAK. Some Forgotten Scholarship on Burma: A Bibliographic Note    PDF FILE (80KB)

 

9                Translation of an Inscription in the Pali Character and Burmese Language, on a stone at Buddh Gya, in Behar    PDF FILE (122 KB)

                    *Notice: revised as of 27 March 2004

 

12              FRANCIS HAMILTON. An Account of the Frontier Between Ava and the Part of Bengal Adjacent to the Karnaphuli River (1825)    PDF FILE (51KB)

 

19              J. N. CUSHING. “Lecture on the Shans    PDF FILE (19B)

 

21              HENRY BURNEY. Notice of Pugan, the Ancient Capital of the Burmese Empire (1835)    PDF FILE (36KB)

 

26              GASPERO BALBI. Voyage to Pegu, and Observations There, Circa 1583.

                     PDF FILE (58KB)

 

BOOK REVIEWS--unavailable currently under update.

 

35              CHRISTINA FINK.  2001.  Living Silence:  Burma Under Military Rule

Reviewed by NETINA TAN CHIEW PHENG   

 

37              ROBERT I. ROTBERG (ed): Burma - Prospects for a Democratic Future.

Reviewed by MIKAEL GRAVERS

 

40              GUSTAAF HOUTMAN. 1999. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.

Reviewed by TILMAN FRASCH

 

DOCUMENTS

 

42              Burmese Buddhism in Colonial Burma    PDF FILE (36KB)

 

48              Some Documents of Tharrawaddy’s Reign: 1837-1846, Part I    PDF FILE (63KB)

 

60              Mandalay in 1878-1879: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck, Originally Selected and Edited by George H. Colbeck in 1892 PDF FILE (139KB)

 

 

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INCLUDED IN PDF FILE (36KB)

 

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS

 

86              ALYSSA PHILLIPS. ‘The mirror cracked’: The colonial history-making project and its legacy in Burma, 1900 to the present,

 

87              PAULLETTE M. HOPPLE. The Structure of Nominalization in Burmese

 

 

SEMINARS

 

88              Burma Campaign Society

 

89              Britain Burma Society

 

 

CONFERENCES

 

92              Traditions of Knowledge in Southeast Asia

 

93              Burma Studies Conference (Northern Illinois University)