Please note the short history of Arakan in chronological order:
- Arakan was an independent Kingdom historically.
- The
Burmese occupied it from 1784 to 1826.
- In 1826, Arakan was ceded to British India as war reparation after the
First Anglo-Burmese War.
- It became part of the Province of Burma of British India in 1886.
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British Burma was split off from British India in 1937.
- After 1948, Rakhine became part of the newly independent state of Burma.
However, the independence of Arakan was just in the paper after a few years because Myanmenization or nationalism of Myanmar broke out civil war across nationwide. Now, Burma has expelled the rightful Rohingya citizens from the very Arakan they first occupied in 1784.