After a six week hiatus, attributable to your stenographer’s busy semester, we return with a Deep Cut that examines historiography written by Burman historians during the post-independence period. Tun Aung Chain concludes by arguing that: “Rather than thinking of nationhood as a process developing in the course of history, [this literature] regarded nationhood as an underlying constant of Myanmar history, innate throughout the political fluctuations of the Bamar kingdoms” (19).

Tun Aung Chain. “Historians and the search for Myanmar nationhood.” in Tun Aung Chain, Broken Glass: Pieces of Myanmar History, SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition, Yangon, 2004: 9–24.

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