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The Mists Of Ramanna: The Legend That Was Lower Burma

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Ultra-nationalist Burman fanatics see themselves as a race apart in Burma. They see themselves as masters and the lords of civilization while all others are subject people. little people.

Aung-Thwin sets out to purge non-Burmese peoples and their cultures from history. He does this by attacking previous scholarship based on the idea that more information must be provided by those holding viewpoints that disagree with his. In spite of him obviously being aware of how thin the sources for this history are in total, he demands the highest possible standard from his opponents. Then he brings out the imperialist/colonialist/british "brush" to tar his opponents with.

The author's implicit conclusions in the book are:

1) There is no civilization in Burma except Burman civilization.

2) There was no ethnic conflict in Burma before the arrival of the evil colonialists. There were only great Burmans providing the benefits of civilization to their inferiors.

3) The history of southeast asia must be rewritten from an exclusively Burman nationalist/ethnic point of view.

4) Given that his father was a Mon, his point of view must be accepted.