The case of Burma’s Arakan coastal region illustrates this process. Between the mid fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries the region’s Buddhist kings, seeking to integrate themselves with a maritime world saturated with Persian culture, adopted Persian royal titles and issued coins in the Perso-Arabic script, as well as those of Sanskrit and Arakanese. By the mid seventeenth century Arakanese was used as the language of the ruling elite, Sanskrit that of the court’s Brahmins, Pali that of the Buddhist canon, Bengali that of the kingdom’s sizeable Muslim population (the ancestors of today’s Rohingya community) and Persian that of administration and diplomacy….”
Jon Wilson, The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India, 2016: “…The English ruled territory in India from the 1650s. Britain was the supreme political force in the subcontinent that stretches from Iran to Thailand, from the Himalayas to the sea, from at least 1800 until 1947. These years of conquest and empire left remains that survived in South Asia’s soil, sometimes until today. Perhaps a quarter of a million Europeans are still buried in more than a thousand ‘cities of the dead’, as the British explorer Richard Burton called them in 1847, scattered through the countries that once made up British-ruled India – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Burma….”
१८२६ ते १९३७ पर्यंत ब्रह्मदेश हा भारताचा अधिकृतपणे भाग होता (Division of the Bengal Presidency 1826–1862 ; Province of British India 1862–1937; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Burma)... ज्यावेळी लोकमान्यांना आणि थिबा राजांना मंडाले आणि रत्नागिरीत कोंडण्यात आले , ते त्यांच्या देशात, भारतातच.
"परवां परवां पर्यंत आमच्यांतच तो सामावलेला होता"
