My suggestions for concrete change to Mrauk-u/Arakan:
Change name to Mrauk-u.
Change state religion to Buddhist.
Possibly reverse the Buddhist > Sunni change that Mrauk-u's province(s) take in later historical set-ups.
Change state culture to Burmese.
Keep Bengali national ideas, as these fit the tolerant, trade-focused nature of the kingdom of Mrauk-u, and they serve to represent the Bengali influence on Mrauk-u.
Source and Justification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mrauk_U
As you can see from the title of the article, "Mrauk-u" seems to be the now-standard way to refer to the state, and naming it after the capital city follows the naming pattern for the other independent Burmese state, Taungu.
The body of the article has actually changed drastically in the last few months. The old article (accessible by looking through revision history) emphasized the heavy Islamic influences, including vassalship to the Sultan of Bengal as of 1444, but the current article shows none of this, indicating a purely Buddhist and Burmese state that was never subject to foreigners until the conquest by Taungu.
But even the old version stated that Mrauk-u, despite cultural influence from the Islamic world and very high tolerance for Muslims, remained Buddhist. From the old article, it could perhaps be argued that Bengali state culture could fit, but it was still implied that most of the court were local Rakhine Burmese. And to take a similar example, the Mughals aren't Persian culture despite their heavy Persian cultural influence and use of the Persian language.
However, I don't think it'd be right to just make Arakan another boring Burman-region minor with no national ideas, and leaving them with Bengali ideas would be a good way to represent cultural influence from their Islamic neighbor, without making them ahistorically Sunni or Bengali.
Change name to Mrauk-u.
Change state religion to Buddhist.
Possibly reverse the Buddhist > Sunni change that Mrauk-u's province(s) take in later historical set-ups.
Change state culture to Burmese.
Keep Bengali national ideas, as these fit the tolerant, trade-focused nature of the kingdom of Mrauk-u, and they serve to represent the Bengali influence on Mrauk-u.
Source and Justification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mrauk_U
As you can see from the title of the article, "Mrauk-u" seems to be the now-standard way to refer to the state, and naming it after the capital city follows the naming pattern for the other independent Burmese state, Taungu.
The body of the article has actually changed drastically in the last few months. The old article (accessible by looking through revision history) emphasized the heavy Islamic influences, including vassalship to the Sultan of Bengal as of 1444, but the current article shows none of this, indicating a purely Buddhist and Burmese state that was never subject to foreigners until the conquest by Taungu.
But even the old version stated that Mrauk-u, despite cultural influence from the Islamic world and very high tolerance for Muslims, remained Buddhist. From the old article, it could perhaps be argued that Bengali state culture could fit, but it was still implied that most of the court were local Rakhine Burmese. And to take a similar example, the Mughals aren't Persian culture despite their heavy Persian cultural influence and use of the Persian language.
However, I don't think it'd be right to just make Arakan another boring Burman-region minor with no national ideas, and leaving them with Bengali ideas would be a good way to represent cultural influence from their Islamic neighbor, without making them ahistorically Sunni or Bengali.
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