Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (39 page)

‘
This changed soon after
’: Sushanta Talukdar, ‘Rajkhowa arrested, brought to Guwahati’,
The Hindu
, 5 December 2009; ‘An Opportunity in Assam’,
The Hindu
, 7 May 2010.

Instruments of Accession

‘
A few decades
’: On the Burmese campaigns against Manipur, see Gangmumei Kabui,
History of Manipur
, Vol. 1,
Precolonial Period
(New Delhi: National Publishing House, 1991), pp. 194–291.

‘
And after the Burmese
’: On British views of Manipur in the mid-nineteenth century, see James Johnstone,
My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills
(London: Sampson Low Marston, 1896).

‘
The Japanese
’: On Imphal, see William Fowler,
We Gave Our Today: Burma
1941–1945 (London: Phoenix, 2009), pp. 128–48; Robert Lyman,
Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare
(London: Constable, 2004), pp. 199–227.

‘
As
1948
approached
’: On the accession of princely states, see Guha,
India After Gandhi
, pp. 35–58.

‘
discussion of the state becoming part of an independent Burma
’: Lokendra Singh,
The Unquiet Valley: Society, Economy, and Politics of Manipur
(1891–1950) (New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1998), p. 202.

‘
it is he who has caused all this trouble for the Nagas
’: Saikia,
Fragmented Memories
, pp. 51–2.

‘
The Nagas would soon
’: On Naga rebellion, see Guha,
India After Gandhi
, pp. 261–78; Hazarika,
Strangers of the Mist
, pp. 88–110.

‘
The Look East policy originally
’: On the ‘Look East’ policy and Northeast India, see Sanjib Baruah,
Between South and South East Asia: North East India and The Look East Policy
(Guwahati, India: Centre for North East India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, 2004); also Amit Baruah, ‘The Roads to Myanmar’,
Frontline
, Vol. 18, No. 5, 3–16 March 2001; Amit Baruah, ‘Northeast as Trade Hub’,
The Hindu
, 20 September 2004; Mahendra Ved, ‘A corner of India that holds the key to Asia’,
New Straits Times
, 17 November 2007.

‘
This has had a curious
’: Sunita Akoijam, ‘Chopsticks in Manipur’,
Himal South Asia
, September 2009.

‘
Others look for connections
’: See for example, Ian MacKinnon, ‘Lost tribe dreams of return to Israel after 2,700 years in exile’,
The Times
, 2 April 2005.

‘
In November
1950’: Sardar Patel letter to Nehru, 7 November 1950, quoted in Krishna,
India’s Bismarck
, pp. 215–22.

Epilogue

‘
Kipling
’: Rudyard Kipling,
Sea to Sea and Other Sketches: Letters of Travel
(1889), Vol. 1, No. 2 (New York: Doubleday, 1914).

‘
In October
2010’: ‘An Industrial Project That Could Change Myanmar’,
International Herald Tribune
, 26 November 2010.

‘
plan is tied
’: ‘A railway boom promises to tie South-East Asia together—and boost China’s sway’,
The Economist
, 20 January 2011.

‘
The Chinese have also
’: Shishir Gupta, ‘China beats India to Stilwell Road contract in Myanmar’,
Indian Express
, 6 January 2011.

‘
And India too
’: Nirmala Ganapathy, ‘India, Myanmar quietly finalise Kaladan project’,
The Economic Times
, 2 November 2007. See also Renauld Egreateau, ‘India and China Vying for Influence in Burma: A New Assessment’,
India Review
, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January–March 2008), pp. 38–72; Renauld Egreateau, ‘India’s Ambitions in Burma: More Frustration than Success?’,
Asian Survey
, Vol. 48, No. 6 (November–December 2008), pp. 936–57.

‘
The country’s first
’: ‘Myanmar’s Post-Election Landscape’, International Crisis Group Asia, Briefing No. 118, 7 March 2011.

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Abor people

Abyssinia

Aceh, insurgency

Ahom people

Aksai Chin

Alan tribe

Alexander the Great

The Ancient Na-Khi Kingdom of South-West China
(Rock)

Anglo-Burmese Wars

Arakan kingdom

Aryabhata (astronomer)

Aryan people; language

Asia: changing geography; geological history

Asoka, Emperor

Assam; Ahom dynasty rule; British rule; Burmese conquest; compared with Yunnan; GDP per capita; immigration; post-independence; tea industry; United Liberation Front of Asom;
see also
Northeast India

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); Burma’s membership

Attlee, Clement

Aung San, General

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aurangzeb, Emperor

Ava

Avalokiteshvara

Babur

Bactria

Bahadur Shah Zafar, Emperor

Bai people; dress; language

Bakhtiyar, Muhammad

Bangladesh

Bawgyo pagoda, Hsipaw

Bay of Bengal

Bengal: as centre of Buddhism; geography; Muslim conquest; partition of; war of independence

Bengali National Awami League

Beijing: airport; architecture; financial district; commercial district (Wangfujing); Forbidden City; geography; history; Olympics; pro-democracy protests; Sanlitun district

Bhutan

Big Dog Hou (Yao chief)

Black Death

Bnei Menashe people

Bodh Gaya

Bodhidarma (Buddhist monk)

Bodo people

Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation

Bose, Subhas Chandra

Brahmaputra River

Bridge over the River Kwai

British East India Company

British Indian Empire

bronze; ceremonial drums

Bruce, Robert

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama); images; statues

Buddhism; Bengal as centre of; ‘Burmese’; Mahayana; Tantric (Vajrayana); Theravada; Tibetan; Zen (Chan)

Buddhist monasteries

Buddhist monks; dress; Lhasa protests; Rangoon protests

Buddhist nuns

Burma: ancient history; anti-colonial protests; Bengali immigration; British rule; Chinese immigration; Chinese invasion (1968); civil war; drug trafficking; economy; education; elections (1990); elections (2010); elections (2012); endangered species trafficking; ethnic insurgencies and conflicts; ethnicity; geography; humanitarian aid; income inequality; independence; isolation; Japanese invasion; languages; logging; military dictatorship/junta; medieval history; mining; nationalism; natural resources; oil and gas pipelines; Panthay Muslim immigration; political prisoners; population; poverty; pro-democracy protests; relations with China; relations with India; relations with Japan; relations with US; religion; sanctions/boycotts against; scenarios for future ; Sino-Burmese War; tourism; trade routes through; trade with China; trade with India; UN scenarios for future; UN Security Council resolution against

Burma Communist Party (BCP)

Burma Road

Burmah Oil Company

‘Burmanization’

Burmese Days
(Orwell)

‘Burmese Way to Socialism’

Bush, George W.

Buyu people

Cachar kingdom

Caindu kingdom

Calcutta; compared with Rangoon; Fort William; geography; Hindu–Muslim riots (1946)

Cambodia

Chengdu

chess

Chiang Kai-shek; kidnap; meeting with Stilwell; retreat into Burma

Chin Hills

China: amusement parks; ancient history; Burmese border enclaves; civil war; corruption; economy; endangered species trafficking; ethnicity; expressways; GDP per capita; gender discrimination; geography; ‘Go West’ policy; Great Leap Forward; income inequality; Japanese invasion; languages/dialects; logging; mining; Mongol invasion; navy; oil and gas pipelines; overseas development; relations with Bangladesh; relations with Burma; relations with India; relations with Pakistan; relations with southeast Asia; relations with US; search for southwest passage; support for Burmese communist insurgents; trade with Burma; trade with India; trade with southeast Asia; urban migration; ‘Western Development Strategy’

Chinese Communist Party

chinthé

Chongqing

Choni kingdom

Christianity; missionaries; Nestorian

Churchill, Winston

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

coffee

Cold War

Colquhoun, Archibald Ross

Communist Party of Burma

copper

Cultural Revolution

Curzon, Lord George

Cyclone Nargis

Dacca (Dhaka)

Dai people

Dalai Lama

Dali; as centre of Buddhist learning; religious sites; tourism

Dali kingdom

dams; Farakka Barrage; Irrawaddy and Salween dam projects; Three Gorges Dam

Davies, H. R.

Delhi

Deng Xiaoping

Dian culture (Bronze Age)

Dogra people

Dongba

d’Orleans, Prince Henri (explorer)

drug trafficking;
see also
heroin; opium

Du Wenxiu (‘Sultan Suleiman’)

Duan family

Esen Tayisi

Fan Cho

Fang Yu-chih (
sawbwa
)

Faxian (Buddhist monk)

Feng Yuxiang (‘Christian General’)

Fitch, Ralph

Five Foot Road (later Southwest Barbarian Way)

Fourteenth Army, British

Furnivall, J. S.

Gama, Vasco da

Gandhara

Gandhi, Mahatma; visits to Burma

Gandhi, Rajiv

Ganges River

Gansu province

Garhgaon

Garib Newaz

Garnier, Francis

Garo people

Gauhati; Kamakhya temple

Genghis Khan

Goa, invasion by India

Gokteik Gorge

gold

‘Golden Triangle’

Great Britain,
see
British Indian Empire

Great Game

Guan Yin temple

Guangdong

Guangxi (Autonomous Region)

Guangzhou

Gui, Prince of

Gupta empire

Gurkhas

Haiphong

Han Chinese; clashes with Uighurs; traditional views on indigenous people

Han dynasty

Hani people

Hasina, Sheikh

heroin;
see also
drug trafficking; opium

Hinduism

Hirohito, Emperor

HIV/AIDS

Hke, Sao (
sawbwa
)

Hkun Hseng, Sao (
sawbwa
)

Hla Myint Ho Chi Minh

Hong Kong; GDP per capita

Hong Xiuquan

Hooghly River

Hoover, Herbert

Horse and Tea Road

Hsipaw; British rule; Bawgyo pagoda

Hu Jintao

Hugeshi, Prince

Hui Wen, King

Humayun, Emperor

Hyderabad

hydroelectricity,
see
dams

Impeccable
, USS

Imphal; Allied war cemetery

Imphal Hills

India: ancient history; British rule; caste system; early influence in southeast Asia; economy; ethnic insurgencies; geography; income inequality; independence; languages; ‘Look East’ policy; Maoist insurgency; numerical system; partition of; relations with Bangladesh; relations with Burma; relations with China; relations with US; religions; trade with Burma; trade with China; trade with Romans; trade with southeast Asia;
see also
Assam; Bengal; Northeast India

Indian Mutiny (First War of Indian Independence)

Indian National Army

Indonesia

Indus River

Indus-Ganges floodplain

Iraq;
see also
Mesopotamia

iron

irrigation

Irrawaddy River

Islam

jade

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Jammu Hills

Japan,
see
Sino-Japanese War; World War II

Jin Guangrong

Jin Mao, Vice-Admiral

Jones, Sir William

Kachin Hills

Kachin Independence Army (KIA)

Kachin people

Kaladan River

Kamakhya temple

Kamarupa kingdom

Kama Sutra
(Vatsyayana)

Kapilavastu

Karen people

Kashmir

Keating, Admiral Timothy

Keng Tung

Khan, President Yahya

Khin Nyunt, General

Khitan people

Khun Sa

King, Martin Luther

‘Kingdom of Women’ (Nu Guo)

Kingdon-Ward, Frank

Kipling, Rudyard

Kohima, Battle of

Kokang

Kokang incident

Konbaung dynasty

Koro language

Kublai Khan

Kuch Behar kingdom

Kuki people

Kumarajiva (Buddhist monk)

Kunming; ancient history; recent history; pogrom against Muslims (1856); shopping malls; university

Kunming people

Kya Hseng, Sao (
sawbwa
)

Ladakh kingdom

Lagrée, Ernest Doudart de

Laiza

Laos

Lashio; fire (1988); history; Guan Yin temple; during Japanese war; missionaries; Shwedagon pagoda replica

Lee, C.Y.

Lhasa; protests

Li Jing

Liangshan Mountains

Lijiang: cuisine; Dongba museum; earthquake; Mongol invasion; Naxi Orchestra; new town; ‘old town’; palace museum (‘Mu House’); tourism

Lin Mingxian

Lo Hsing-han

logging

Lokmanya Tilak

Long Yun (Yunnan warlord)

Long March

longyi

Lost Horizon
(Hilton)

Lugo Lake

Lushai Hills

Madras

Magadha kingdom

Malacca, Straits of

Malacca Dilemma

malaria

Malay peninsula

Malaysia

Man Shu
(‘Book of the Southern Barbarians’)

Manchu (Quig) dynasty

Mandalay; ancient history of region; Chinese immigration; education; founding of; Japanese invasion/bombing; market; rebuilding of; recapture of; royal palace; shopping malls

Mandalay Hill

Mangshih

Manipur; accession to India; British rule; ethnicity; history; Japanese invasion

Mao Zedong

Marco Polo; describes Bengal; describes Mandalay; describes sexual relations in Caindu; describes Yunnan

Maugham, W. Somerset

McMahon Line

Meghalaya

Meithei people

Mekong River

Mesopotamia

Miao people

Mimo confederacy

Mindon, King

Ming Dynasty; defeat of Mongols; Great Rites Controversy

Mir Jumla, Muhammad Said

Miri people

Mithila

Mizo people

Mizoram

Mo-man tribe

Mon people

Mong Yawng

Mongla

Mongolia

Mongols

Mongut, King

Morshead, Colonel Henry

Mosuo people

Moulmein

Mount Leigong, Battle of

Mu clan

Mu Ying

Mughal dynasty

Muivah, Thuingaleng

Mujibar Rahman, Sheikh

Mukti Bahini (guerrillas)

Muli kingdom

Muse

Mutaguchi, General Renya

Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army

Myitkyina

Naga National Council

Naga people

Nagaland

Nalanda University

Nanjing

Nanzhao kingdom

Narayan, Jayaprakash

Nasir al-Din

National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)

National League for Democracy (NLD)

National Socialist Council of Nagaland

Naxi people: dress; language; writing system

Naxi kingdom; discovery by Westerners; medieval history; Mongol invasion

Naypyitaw

Ne Win, General

Nehru, Pandit

Nepal

Nero, Emperor

New Great Game

Nixon, Richard

Northeast India: geography; insurgencies; isolation; languages; population; poverty; transport links;
see also
Assam; Manipur

Obama, Barack

Odantapuri University

Ohn Kya, Sao (
sawbwa
)

oil/gas; pipelines

Old Stone Bridge

Operation Blue Arrow

Operation Clear Out

Operation Golden Bird

Operation King Conqueror

opium;
see also
drug trafficking; heroin

Opium Wars

Orwell, George

Ottoman empire

Pagan kingdom

Pakistan

Pallava dynasty

Pangal people

Panthay Rebellion

Peng Jiasheng

People’s Liberation Army (PLA); invasion of Tibet

Persia

Phizo, Angami Zaipu

Ptolemy

Pyinmana

Qin kingdom

Qing dynasty,
see
Manchu dynasty

Qinghai

railways: Chinese future projects; Kunming–Haiphong; Kunming–Shanghai; Kunming–Vientiane; Lhasa–Kathmandu; Mandalay–Lashio; Rangoon–Mandalay

Ramree Island

Rangoon; British rule; exports/trade; immigration; Japanese invasion; military takeover; protests; religious sites;
see also
Shwedagon pagoda

Rao, Narasimha

Rawang tribe

rice

The Rise of Great Powers
(Chinese TV series)

‘Roadmap to Democracy’

roads: Burma Road (Kunming–Lashio); Chinese expressways; Horse and Tea Road; Kunming–Calcutta; Kunming–Chittagong; Mandalay–Kunming; Stilwell Road (Ruili–Northeast India); Stone Cattle Road; Xinjiang–Tibet

Robinson, Captain Herbert Reginald

Rock, Joseph

Rohingya people