About Nai Pan Hla
Lived 1923 – 2010 (aged 86–87). Nai Pan Hla was a Myanmar historian.
Nai Pan Hla (, ; 1923 – 18 June 2010) was a Burmese historian and cultural anthropologist of Mon descent. Throughout his career, he published many works on Mon ethnography, including the best-seller The Struggle of Rajadhiraj.
Early life and education
Pan Hla was born in March 1923 in Kawkareik Township, British Burma to Nai Jawt and Mi Cho. In 1994, he became a professor at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, where he taught Southeast Asian literature and history, and returned to Myanmar in 1998. He published A Short Mon History in 2013.
Death He died on 18 June 2010 in Yangon after suffering a paralytic stroke.
Publications
A Short Mon History (2013) Struggle of Rajadhiraj (1977)
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Burmese anthropologist and researcher (1923–2010)
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