The myriad languages

THE MYRIAD LANGUAGES
There is something that is attractive about all those races. To Sir Stamford Raffles, jades with the sullenness, the cringing of Bengal, java in 1811 was an enchanted isle, its people fresher from the hand of nature than those of India. Captain marryat the novelist who, as a naval officer at Rangoon in 1824, fought the Burmese hand to hand thought them the best race in Asia, brave, cheerful, intelligent, above all kind of free.
The mongoloid were not the last, and in smaller numbers, there arrival another and darker stocks indeed many other stocks trickling over the hills from India or creeping along the coast in dug-outs and then, as the ages passed, in little sailing ships. By 50 A.D Indian traders were founding new settlement, Hindu or even Buddhist, in the town along the coast the earliest record in the Philippine across the China Sea; its language is Sanskrit, its alphabet the south Indian alphabet used to this very by Bur man and Siamese, Cambodian and Javanese. The people retain their myriad language, and in the remote interior they are illiterate or even pagan, but the literate culture are recognizably Indian. There is no trace of Chinese influence, for the Chinese did not began to occupy Yunnan till the thirteen century, and there culture influence stopped there: the only Chinese culture area south Tongking is Annam even here the dynasties were Hindu until the fifteenth century. To be continue in the next post

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The mongoloid stock, stand-eyed and yellow-skinned, was never found only in china where it now has its principal home. It was reaching the indo-Chinese peninsula, blending with earlier stocks, when history begins. And they ha already spread oversea, those earlier stocks Even today, over a vast area, from the mainland to the remotest south sea island among races totally unaware of each semblances in physical, handicraft and custom. The ancient bronze drum which announce the king Siam’s presence in his audience chamber are the type still use by the rustic Karen people of Burma and by many an obscure tribe in the island of Indonesia; the Dyak in Borneo, the Bontoc in the Philippines, practice the same headhunting as the war in their Burma mountain fastness ;and among the civilization races the décor of the dance are the same as in Bali as in Burma there is the same sex equality, the woman are veiled and free among the Javanese, who are mahomedan,as among the Burmese, who are Buddhist. to be continue in the next post

British rule in the Burma

People brought to up Kipling’s road to Mandalay, on fielding hall’s soul of a, had of shock in 1942 they hard of our troop in Burma, as they fell back before the Japanese month after month, in the blinding heat and glare, being refused a welcome, nay, being attacked in the village through which they passed. What could have happened to cause such a change in such al decent people?
The answer is both picture of Burmese – content under there white rule a generation ago, fifth columnist today – are alike false. Things are never as simple as that. Indeed we shall have to look into the past, to see how the nation grew up, before we can even begin to understand.

ETHNOGRAPY
Indo-china is a misleading name for the great peninsula comprise Burma, Siam and French indo-china, as India and china neither meet nor blend; they may appear to meet on the map, but actually their inhabited areas are a thousand miles apart, with a tangle of tail jungle and ice-clad peaks between. Yet it is a correct name, and the people proto-Malay and mongoloid the civilization is Indian.