LEADER 05084oam 22006614a 450 001 9910168746403321 005 20230621135929.0 010 $a0-8248-7441-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824874414 035 $a(CKB)3710000001127859 035 $a(DE-B1597)551426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824874414 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929944 035 $a(OCoLC)1103698289 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73528 035 $a(OCoLC)1048680499 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6d852277-d4d1-4722-b969-e06128c319bf 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34789 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001127859 100 $a20041215d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Mists of Ramanna$eThe Legend That Was Lower Burma /$fMichael A. Aung-Thwin 210 $cUniversity of Hawai'i Press$d2005 210 1$aHonolulu :$cUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$d2005. 210 4$d©2005. 215 $a1 online resource (444 p.) $c4 maps, 17 b&w images, 28 line drawings and charts 311 $a0-8248-2886-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-423) and index. 327 $aThe Py millennium -- Rman?n?adesa : an imagined polity -- Thato?n (Sudhuim) : an imagined center -- The conquest of Thato?n : an imagined event -- The conquest of Thato?n as allegory -- The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script -- The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history -- The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Paga?n temple -- The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend -- The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "down-trodden Talaing" -- Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm. 330 $aScholars have long accepted the belief that a Theravada Buddhist Mon kingdom, R?maññadesa, flourished in coastal Lower Burma until it was conquered in 1057 by King Aniruddha of Pagan-which then became, in essence, the new custodian and repository of Mon culture in the Upper Burmese interior. This scenario, which Aung-Thwin calls the "Mon Paradigm," has circumscribed much of the scholarship on early Burma and significantly shaped the history of Southeast Asia for more than a century. Now, in a masterful reassessment of Burmese history, Michael Aung-Thwin reexamines the original contemporary accounts and sources without finding any evidence of an early Theravada Mon polity or a conquest by Aniruddha. The paradigm, he finds, cannot be sustained. How, when, and why did the Mon Paradigm emerge? Aung-Thwin meticulously traces the paradigm's creation to the merging of two temporally, causally, and contextually unrelated Mon and Burmese narratives, which were later synthesized in English by colonial officials and scholars. Thus there was no single originating source, only a late and mistaken conflation of sources. The conceptual, methodological, and empirical ramifications of these findings are significant. The prevalent view that state-formation began in the maritime regions of Southeast Asia with trade and commerce rather than in the interior with agriculture must now be reassessed. In addition, a more rigorous look at the actual scope and impact of a romanticized Mon culture in the region is required. Other issues important to the field of early Burma and Southeast Asian studies, including the process of "Indianization," the characterization of "classical" states, and the advent and spread of Theravada Buddhism, are also directly affected by Aung-Thwin's work. Finally, it provides a geo-political, cultural, and economic alternative to what has become an ethnic interpretation of Burma's history.An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher. 606 $aLegends$zBurma 607 $aMon State (Burma)$xHistory 607 $aBurma$xHistoriography 607 $aBurma$xHistory$yTo 1824 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aHistory 610 $aAniruddha 610 $aBago 610 $aMyanmar 610 $aBamar people 610 $aKyansittha 610 $aLower Myanmar 610 $aMon language 610 $aMon people 615 0$aLegends 676 $a959.1 700 $aAung-Thwin$b Michael$0858376 712 02$aKnowledge Unlatched$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910168746403321 996 $aThe Mists of Ramanna$92438565 997 $aUNINA