Rights, Justice and Good Governance in Burmese Tradition. This is the second part of a three-part series on the past thousand years of Burmese history, by historian U Aung Kin. round A.D. 100 the Mon people of what is now lower Burma were said to have established contact with traders from India, from whom they imported astrology, political ideas, and above all, the art of writing. The Mon derived their alphabet from India and the Burmese words came from the Mon. The first mention of the word ?Mirma? was found in a Mon inscription dated 1102. The word ?Mranma? (now Myanmar) first appeared in an inscription of 1190. And the spelling later changed to ?Mramma? around 1332...