"The Rohingyas : A Short Account of Their History and Culture" Written by the first flap of this book:
This book is devoted to a study of Rohingyas of Arakan by a renowned historian of subcontinent who has a unique access rare source materials. It is a comprehensive study covering the origin of the Rohingyas, their glorious history, heritage, society, traditions and cultures as well as relations between the Arakan and Bangladesh. The Burmese ruling junta claims that historically there are no names like Rohang or Rohingya in Burma and Rohingyas are not national of Burma. But the author of the book unearthed that the old name of Arakan is Rohang and the Rohingyas have got a long history, a language, a heritage, a culture and a tradition of their own that they had built up in Arakan by their long and historic settlements. In fact the Rohingyas have been setting in Arakan for more than a thousand years. Above all the Rohingyas from a homogenous group in Arakan along Burma- Bangladesh border.