Description:
"For more a millennium the policy we know as Arakan existed as a culturally strategic border state, the only
state in Southeast Asia to be connected to India by both land and sea routes. The study of its culture is of
particular interest as it reveals which elements of Indian cultural were adopted in Arakan and in the land to
its east. We can then ask why some elements and not others were adopted, and attempted to relate this to
the political, social and religious developments of the wider region..."
Source/publisher:
Rakhapura Arakan Information Website
Date of Publication:
2008-12-28
Date of entry:
2010-11-12
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Language:
English