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The volume reopens the chapter of 'Bengali Literary Renaissance' at the court of Mrauk-U (Bengali: Rosanga) during the fifteenth-seventeenth centuries. The problem of the Rohingyas cannot be ubderstood without taking note of the spread of the Bengali language and the polymorphism accommodating Buddhism, Vaishnavism and Sufi-dominated Islam in various parts of South Asia. Yet, going beyond the Buddhist-Muslim dichotomy, the volume takes up dichotomies which both ...
Through eight chapters the author, Swapana Bhattacharya (Chakraborti), attempts to trace a continuum in the field of political, intellectual and cultural lives of India and Myanmar during the period under reference. She argues that the relation between these two former British colonies experienced various transformation, and gradually got matured. Ignoring ideological barriers and overlooking all economic constraints, both the countries got prepared to face ...