Rohingyas are an ethnic minority, mostly Muslim, who practice a Sufi�inflected type of Sunni Islam. They comprise a third of the Rakhine state�s population and claim to have existed in Rakhine much before Myanmar took control in 1784. Rohang means �Arakan� in the Arakan dialect wh...
It is also a carrier of memetics – from the accumulated wisdom of thousands of communities that shared this geography. For example, vegetarianism is a civilisational trait of Bharat – but what does it have to do with religion? Simply because its a desired goal in Vaishnavism? One of the...
But her silence in the face of the military crackdown on the Rohingya minority in 2017 in her country after she had become its de facto leader, had people calling for her Nobel Prize to be withdrawn. Nobel rules do not allow this. The Norwegian Nobel committee head noted, "It's not ...
Similarly, Aziz's chapter focuses on the Rohingya refugee community's demonstrations of their food practices in the Australian city of Brisbane. Food practices create spaces of inclusion for the immigrant community to identify a territory within the city as part of the larger host community. ...
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Pre-colonial and colonial Burma were formative eras in creating a narrative around ethnon- ationalism, in which inhabitants of Myanmar base their identity on ethnic- ity, race, religion and territory. Before Burma became a British colony, it was known as the land of kings, and it is ...