The mists of Rāmañña : the legend that was lower Burma

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The mists of Rāmañña : the legend that was lower Burma

Michael A. Aung-Thwin

University of Hawai'i Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-423) and index

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"Published with the support of the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai`i" -- Add. T.p.

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  • The Pyū millennium
  • Rāmaññadesa, an imagined polity
  • Thatôn (Sudhuim), an imagined center
  • The conquest of Thatôn, an imagined event
  • The conquest of Thatôn as allegory
  • The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script
  • The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history
  • The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Pagán temple
  • The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend
  • The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "downtrodden Talaing"
  • Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm
  • Without the Mon paradigm

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