Historiography and National Identity of Colonial Burma: An Analysis of a Vernacular School History Textbook
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This article explains how modern Burmese national identity has been portrayed in a school history textbook of British Burma. To serve this purpose, a history textbook prescribed in the vernacular schools is to be analyzed here. U Ba Than's Myanmar Yazawin is composed of the historiographical accounts of different Burmese chronicles to form a new national concept “Burmese”, compromising traditional concepts and colonial historical knowledge. Based on the textual analysis, this research is to shed light on the new concept on how the Burmese has constituted three conceptions: race, space and time. Ethnically, it is accepted that the Burmese is a hybrid of the Tibeto-Burman and the Aryans who claim themselves to be the descendants of the Buddha. British Burma was once the territory under the rule of a long line of Burmese kings since yore. There had chronologically emerged three Burmese kingdoms --Bagan, Taungoo and Konbaung-- throughout historic eras. Focusing on three sectors which commonplace to observe national identity: the race, the territory and the time, this article argues that Burmese national identity that Burmese is a hybrid of Tibeto-Burman and Buddha descendent who live in the Burmese kingdom which had flourished throughout historic era, is a product of modern education initiated in the colonial period.
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This article explains how modern Burmese national identity has been portrayed in a school history textbook of British Burma. To serve this purpose, a history textbook prescribed in the vernacular schools is to be analyzed here. U Ba Than's Myanmar Yazawin is composed of the historiographical accounts of different Burmese chronicles to form a new national concept “Burmese”, compromising traditional concepts and colonial historical knowledge. Based on the textual analysis, this research is to shed light on the new concept on how the Burmese has constituted three conceptions: race, space and time. Ethnically, it is accepted that the Burmese is a hybrid of the Tibeto-Burman and the Aryans who claim themselves to be the descendants of the Buddha. British Burma was once the territory under the rule of a long line of Burmese kings since yore. There had chronologically emerged three Burmese kingdoms --Bagan, Taungoo and Konbaung-- throughout historic eras. Focusing on three sectors which commonplace to observe national identity: the race, the territory and the time, this article argues that Burmese national identity that Burmese is a hybrid of Tibeto-Burman and Buddha descendent who live in the Burmese kingdom which had flourished throughout historic era, is a product of modern education initiated in the colonial period.
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