Fleeting Agencies
Fleeting Agencies

Author: Arunima Datta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1108837387

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Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.

Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Malaya
Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Malaya

Author: Donna J. Amoroso

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2014-05-26

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9971698145

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In this original and perceptive study Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites' preeminent position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms and rituals _ helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership. In the postwar era, traditionalism began to play a new role: it became a weapon which the Malay aristocracy employed to resist British plans for a Malayan Union and to neutralise the challenge coming groups representing a more radical, democratic perspective and even hijacking their themes. Leading this conservative struggle was Dato Onn bin Jaafar, who not only successfully helped shape Malay opposition to the Malayan Union but was also instrumental in the creation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that eventually came to personify an ïacceptable Malay nationalismÍ. Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya is an important contribution to the history of colonial Malaya and, more generally, to the history of ideas in late colonial societies.

Conflict And Violence In Singapore And Malaysia, 1945-1983
Conflict And Violence In Singapore And Malaysia, 1945-1983

Author: Richard Clutterbuck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 042971789X

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Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence which, in 1969, was only just prevented from setting the whole country on fire? And has Singapore's success been bought at a price in civil liberties too high for its health in the future? Four years of th

Malaya and Singapore 1941–42
Malaya and Singapore 1941–42

Author: Mark Stille

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1472811240

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For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and India open to invasion. Although heavily outnumbered, the Japanese Army fought fiercely to overcome the inept and shambolic defence offered by the British and Commonwealth forces. Detailed analysis of the conflict, combined with a heavy focus on the significance of the aerial campaign, help tell the fascinating story of the Japanese victory, from the initial landings in Thailand and Malaya through to the destruction of the Royal Navy's Force Z and the final fall of Singapore itself.

Malabar to Malaya
Malabar to Malaya

Author: Ravindran Raghavan

Publisher: Ravindran Raghavan

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1729104983

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Book description: The British rubber plantations in Malaya (now Malaysia) created a huge migration of indentured labour from India. My grandpa joined the wave to start a spice business and lost it all. That plunged my generation below the poverty line!I I was born in a plantation house (not a hospital) and my birth certificate was "processed" in a police station. That is how I arrived earth in 1965. Grew up in the rubber plantation, soon to become unpaid underaged labour helping my parents tap rubber trees starting at 04:30 in the morning amongst the mosquitoes and snakes while smacking into spider webs between the trees.Our meals starts on a perfect dining table after pay day and dwindles into lack of food by end of the month. The vicious cycle seems to never end year after year. In the years to come I became a Chemical Engineer and that changed this "fate" by placing food on our table consistently. As I set sail on my career, my life took various positive turns that brought me to being a Company Director occasionally signing cheques with six digits in them. This book shares a part my journey that took me through pain, gain, glory and gratification. Author: Author is a 53 yeard old, third generation Malaysian of Indian descent. Graduated with a honours Degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Malaya and held various management positions in multinationals. Currently working as General Manager in the Dubai Head Office of a UK-based shipping company. Fluent in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Tamil and Malayalam.