CONTENTS:-- ARTICLES: ANNE BOOTH. The Burma Development Disaster in Comparative Historical Perspective... ELIZABETH MOORE. Bronze and Iron Age Sites in Upper Myanmar: Chindwin, Samon, and Pyu ... FRANCIS BUCHANAN. A Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma Empire (1799)..... SEMINAR SUMMARIES: WILLIAM WOMACK. Politics and Press Censorship in British Burma: The case of the Moulmein Chronicle..... DOCUMENTS: Documents on Western Burmese Economic History: 1) WILLIAM TURNER. Extract of a Letter dated Nagore, 7th July 1761... 2) ANONYMOUS. Memorandum of Arracan Trade, circa 1770s... 3) ANONYMOUS. History of the Mugs, 1777... 4) W. F. NUTHALL. Memorandum Regarding the Trade of Arracan and the Port of Akyab in the East Indies, Lat. 20° S?N Long 92° 56 ¼ E. (1849)..... BOOK REVIEWS: THANT MYINT-U. The Making of Modern Burma. Reviewed by MARILYN LONGMUIR... ROBERT H. TAYLOR (ed.). Burma: Political Economy Under Military Rule. Reviewed by JÖRG SCHENDEL..... ARCHIVE REPORTS: WIL O. DIJK. The Archives of the Dutch East India Company as They Relate to Burma..... DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS: JÖRG SCHENDEL. The Mandalay Economy: Upper Burma?s External Trade, c. 1850?90... MARILYN V. LONGMUIR. Oil in Burma: The Extraction of ?Earth-Oil” to 1914... ANNE-MAY CHEW. Les Temples Excavés de la Colline de Po Win en Birmanie Centrale: Architecture, Sculpture et Peintures murales... MICHAEL W. CHARNEY. Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)..... NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: ASEASUK Conference Announcement... ASEASUK Website... Britain-Burma Society... Remembering World War II in Burma—The Burma Campaign Society... ?Relics and Relic Worship in the Early Buddhism of India and Burma”... Living Bibliography of Myanmar/Burma ... Introduction to the Online Burma/Myanmar ... New Appointments..... CORRESPONDENCE: Information