Talk:Yindaw

Local folklore about immigrants from India: members of Shah Shuja's entourage?
The bit about the political refugees from India supposedly migrating to Yindaw in the early 1700s immediately stood out to me because it sounds suspiciously like a distorted retelling of what happened to the Mughal prince Shah Shuja, who did actually flee to Arakan in 1660 after a succession war with his brother Aurangzeb (aka Alamgir), who had imprisoned their father Shah Jahan and seized the Mughal throne. The details are jumbled (the actual prince who Shah Jahan named as his successor was Dara Shikoh, not Shah Shuja; "Arlangiri" was not actually the father; and the Myanmar version puts all these events half a century after they actually happened), but there are clearly some similarities.

I think this is really fascinating because this local legend seems to imply that some followers of Shah Shuja may have eventually ended up settling here in Myanmar sometime after they drop out of the historical record, and then their descendants 200 years later were still retelling this story as a distant memory of what had happened.

This is all my own speculation, so it's clearly original research and I can't put it in the article, but I want to at least leave this here in case anyone wants to look into this further. Maybe someone else has already written about this; if that's the case then maybe this can get included in the article. -- 3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 04:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)