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" 1 In 1459, while Kalimah Shah was reigning in Arakan, Chittagong was occupied by his troops and until 1666 the province remained in Arakanese hands; "indeed it had occasionally been subject to Arakan for centuries; and according to the fluctuation of power in the Middle Ages, when Bengal was in the ascendant, some kings-for instance Narameikhla-sent tribute to Bengal, and when the Arakanese were in the ascendant they received tribute from the Ganges delta, 'the Twelve Towns of Bengal'.
The next and by far the most important episode in Muslim inter• course with Burma was the flight of Shah Shuja', the brother of Aurangzeb, to Arakan and his subsequent history.
These and some of the resident Muslims in Arakan, seeing the plight of a son of the Mughal Emperor, conspired to depose the Arakanese king by a coup d'etat and to set up Shuja' in his place.
The Talaing chronicles do not say to what extent violence was used nor how many men, women and children were tortured and put to death in order that goats and fowls in future might live in security!" 2 We also come across traces of a Muslim settlement, begun by the Burmese kings somewhere in the sixteenth century, which has survived till today.
According to it, "the Myedu Muslims are the descendants from Mahomedans of Northern India who came to Burma in the time of King Alaungpaya ( 1752-60), to offer their services as soldiers.