The Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula

Author: Michel Jacq-Hergoualc’h

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 787

ISBN-13: 9047400682

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This book attempts to evaluate the role of the Malay Peninsula as a crossroads in the great wave of commercial relationships along the maritime Silk Road from the first centuries of the Christian era to the 14th century. Through these exchanges, representatives of all the civilizations of Asia entered into contact along its shores. They left in this place a part of themselves, as can be seen in the great stylistic diversity of the religious and commercial artefacts which have been found in the area. These artefacts have been analysed and categorized afresh in the light of more precise information provided in Chinese texts concerning the nature of the political entities developing at the time: often dynamic city states or more modest chiefdoms.

Thai South and Malay North
Thai South and Malay North

Author: Michael John Montesano

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9789971694111

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The portion of the Malay Peninsula where the Thai Buddhist civilization of Thailand gives way to the Malay Muslim civilization of Malaysia is characterized by multiple forms of pluralism. This book examines a broad range of issues relating to the turmoil afflicting the region.

Tribal Communities in the Malay World
Tribal Communities in the Malay World

Author: Geoffrey Benjamin

Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9814517410

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The Malay World (Alam Melayu), spanning the Malay Peninsula, much of Sumatra, and parts of Borneo, has long contained within it a variety of populations. Most of the Malays have been organized into the different kingdoms (kerajaan Melayu) from which they have derived their identity. But the territories of those kingdoms have also included tribal peoples - both Malay and non-Malay - who have held themselves apart from those kingdoms in varying degrees. In the last three decades, research on these tribal societies has aroused increasing interest.This book explores the ways in which the character of these societies relates to the Malay kingdoms that have held power in the region for many centuries past, as well as to the modern nation-states of the region. It brings together researchers committed to comparative analysis of the tribal groups living on either side of the Malacca Straits - in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. New theoretical and descriptive approaches are presented for the study of the social and cultural continuities and discontinuities manifested by tribal life in the region.

Tragic Orphans
Tragic Orphans

Author: Carl Vadivella Belle

Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9814620955

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In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a "e;landless proletariat"e; and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become "e;Tragic orphans"e; of whom India has forgotten and Malaya looks down upon with contempt"e;. Ayer's words continue to resonate; as a minority group in a nation dominated politically by colonially derived narratives of "e;race"e; and ethnicity and riven by the imperatives of religion, the general trajectory of the economically and politically impotent Indian community has been one of increasing irrelevance. This book explores the history of the modern Indian presence in Malaysia, and traces the vital role played by the Indian community in the construction of contemporary Malaysia. In this comprehensive new study, Carl Vadivella Belle offers fresh insights on the Indian experience spanning the period from the colonial recruitment of Indian labour to the post-Merdeka political, economic and social marginalization of Indians. While recent Indian challenges to the political status quo - a regime described as that of "e;benign neglect"e; - promoted Indian hopes of reform, change and uplift, the author concludes that the dictates of political discourse permeated by the ideologies of communalism offer limited prospects for meaningful change.

Out East in the Malay Peninsula
Out East in the Malay Peninsula

Author: Gerwyn Elidor David Lewis

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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G. E. D. Lewis was lured away from Wales to become a teacher in Malaya by the letters he received from his brothers on colonial service. Concentrating on the daily lives of the Malayasians peoples themselves rather than on the European experience, his amusing anecdotal biography provides keen insights into British methods of colonial administration and education, and includes a harrowing account of the Japanese occupation, during which he was transported to Burma to work on the notorious Death Railway.

The Towns of Malaya
The Towns of Malaya

Author: Neil Khor

Publisher: Editions Didier Millet

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9789814610223

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A compelling analysis of the history, development, planning and architecture of the major towns of Peninsular Malaysia. Fully illustrated with archival photographs and maps.