Topic:
Rohingya, refugee, history, human rights,Bangladesh, Myanmar
Description:
"Rohingyas are the inhabitants of historical Arakan (RakhineState) of Myanmar. Arakan shares nearly 171 mile-longcommon border with Bangladesh. Its toatal area is 14,914 sq mileswhich contains approximately 3 million population according to the census of 2014. Out of this, there are around one million
Rohingyas in Arakan (Farzana, 2017, p. 2). It is a piece of land
along the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal from the Naaf river on
the border of Chittagong to cape Negaris. Topographically, it is
separated from the mainland of Myanmar by Yoma range in one
side and widely connected to the Bay of Bengal in the other side.
That is why it is known as the ‗Gate Way to the Far East‘ (Yunus,
1994, p. 7). Because of its geographical location, it started to atract
the seafarers from the very ancient period. It was one of the
maritime activities centre in the South Asia. With this Arakan grew
up with economic development and multi cultural environment.
However, because of the geographical condition, Arakan remained
as an independent entity from the very ancient period. According to archaeological evidences, the earliest human
settlement in Myanmar dates back to 11,000 BC (Maw, 1995, pp.
213-220). In case of Arakan, antique relics have been found from
Indo-Aryan groups who arrived from the Ganges Valley to Arakan
as early as 3000 BC. And these people were basically from the
ancient India. Hence, the culture of Arakan was influenced by
India instead of mainland of Myanmar at least up to the 10th
century because of its easy access to the Gangetic land and the Bay
of Bengal instead of mountainous boundary on the other side..."
Source/publisher:
Borno Prokash Ltd. via Academia.edu (USA)
Date of Publication:
2019-00-00
Date of entry:
2020-02-09
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Language:
English
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