Excising the 'Mon Paradigm' from Burmese historiography.(Critical essay)

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | June 1, 2007| | Copyright

The mists of Ramanna: The legend that was Lower Burma

By MICHAEL A. AUNG-THWIN Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 432. Maps, Figures, Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index.

This is a consistently ambitious, frequently brilliant, basically successful attempt to reconfigure early Burmese historiography.

Michael Aung-Thwin, author of earlier revisionist inquiries into Burmese historiography, sets out in this book to destroy root and branch what he terms the 'Mon Paradigm'. This is the thesis, propounded by British colonial ...

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