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CONTENTS
 

Editorial Letter 240 right-click to download pdf
 

Articles

 
Alexandra Green, “The Narrative Murals of Tilokaguru Cave-Temple: A Reassessment after Jane Terry Bailey” 246

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Jon Fernquist, “Min-gyi-nyo, the Shan Invasions of Ava (1524-27), and the Beginnings of Expansionary Warfare in Toungoo Burma: 1486-1539” 284

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Aye Chan, “The Development of a Muslim Enclave in Arakan (Rakhine) State of Burma (Myanmar)” 396

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Gerry Abbott, “Was ‘Yadza’ Really Ro(d)gers?” 422
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William Womack, “Literate Networks and the Production of Sgaw and Pwo Karen Writing in Burma, c.1830-1930” 434

 

Mandy Sadan, "History and Ethnicity in Burma: Cultural Contexts of the Ethnic Category 'Kachin' in the Colonial and Post-Colonial State, 1824-2004" 435


Atsuko Naono, “The State of Vaccination: British Doctors, Indigenous Cooperation, and the Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma” 436
 

Book Reviews right-click to download pdf
 

Sunait Chutintaranond (ed.), Phama an thai: wa duai prawattisat lae sinlapa nai thatsana phama

Reviewed by Volker Grabowsky 438
Reviewed by Puttanee Kangkun 442


Norman G. Owen (ed.). The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History
Reviewed by Michael W. Charney 446
 

Amitav Ghosh. The Glass Palace
Reviewed by Khin Mar Mar Kyi 449
 

Michael W. Charney, Southeast Asian Warfare,1300-1900
Reviewed by Jon Fernquist 453

Reports, Correspondence, Journals, and Accounts
 

M. Montmorency, “Account of the Fortifications at Ava in 1827” 460
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Lovell Ingalls, “The Journal of Lovell Ingalls, 1838-1839” 464
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N. Wallich, “Brief Excursion to the Hills to the East of Ava in November 1826” 476

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Royal B. Hancock, “Extracts from Royal B. Hancock’s Journal at Mergui” 484
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John Crawfurd, “On the Peoples and Cultures of the Kingdom of Burma” 492

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William Buckland, “Geological Account of a Series of Animal and Vegetable Remains and of Rocks, collected by J. Crawfurd, Esq. on a Voyage up the Irawadi to Ava, in 1826 and 1827” 512
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John Crawfurd, “Note on the Word ‘Baren’ for the British East India Company” 528
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John Crawfurd, “Quadrupeds and Other Animals of Burma” 530
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John Crawfurd, “An Account of Martaban in March and April 1826” 534
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“Missionary Letters from Burma, 1828-1839” 548
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Captain George Baker, “Short Account of the Bûraghmah Country” 624
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Captain George Baker, “Notes on Bûraghmah (c. 1755)” 632
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John Crawfurd, “Journal of An Embassy From the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava” 636
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John Crawfurd, “Account of Rangoon in the Summer of 1826” 960
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Captain Walter Alves, “Account of the Loss of Negrais” 966
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M.A. Theses


Michael W. Charney, “Arakan, Min Yazagyi, and the Portuguese: The Relationship Between the  Growth of Arakanese Imperial Power and Portuguese Mercenaries on the Fringe of  Mainland Southeast Asia 1517-1617 (as submitted in 1993)” 974
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Notices & Bibliographic Materials
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Forthcoming Additions to the Bibliography of Burma/Myanmar Research 1146
 

IDC Publishers (Leiden) Delineating British Burma/British Official & Confidential Print, 1826-1949 1154
 

Maps:
 

1. Colonial Rangoon 1156


2. Precolonial Ava Colourized 1157

 

Jon Fernquist, Addendum to  “Min-gyi-nyo, the Shan Invasions of Ava (1524-27), and the Beginnings of  

        Expansionary Warfare in Toungoo Burma."    1158

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