Stephan Egbert Arie van Galen's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
The Arakanese kingdom (Rakhine state in modern Myanmar) grew from the fifteenth century AD from a small agrarian state with its nucleus in the hart of the Kaladan valley to a significant local power by the early seventeenth century. Arakan asserted its influence across the northern shores of the Bay of Bengal. In the first decades of the seventeent...
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... However, as the Sikandarnama introduction makes clear, this rise in fortune was nonetheless contingent on the relationship of the Bengali Muslim nobility of Arakan with their Buddhist king. When this relationship came under increasing strain after the arrival of the Mughal prince and the former subahdar of Bengal, Shah Shuja in 1660, and the crisis that followed in its aftermath (see van Galen, 2008;Choudhury, 2015), Alaol's fortunes saw a reversal. The conflict between Shuja and King Candasudhammaraja led to considerable surveillance and restrictions on the activities of Bengali Muslims, including restrictions on sea trade. ...
Reference: Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
