Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers w…
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Through memoirs, letters and interviews this text chronicles notable events and explores the anomalies and conflicts of the British rule in Malaysia from 1880 to 1960.
This dissertation documents cultural processes of decolonization and nation-building in the mid-twentieth century between 1950 and 1970 between Southeast Asia and the West, specifically between Burma, Malaya, Thailand, and Great Britain and the United States, as they occurred th…
The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were tak…
This dissertation is an exploration of the similar experiences of Kuala Lumpur and Rangoon as provincial colonial capitals within the British empire. By using archival sources from England and Malaysia which concentrate on the first few years of British administration in each ci…
In the former British colony of Malaya, communism is a controversial subject that often invites significant scrutiny from government officials and pro-British scholars who describes the radical movement as a foreign conspiracy to dominate the small Southeast Asian nation. The pr…
This study analyzes the emergence of Islamic reform in the first half of twentieth century Malaya, with special reference to Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin. It provides an overview of Islamic reform in colonial Malaya. Then, it examines the process through which Islamic reformism was t…
Drawing together various rubrics from Postcolonial Studies and Asian Studies, this dissertation examines the colonial travel narratives of three British writers who shaped the ideological construct of "Malaya" for the British reading public from the late nineteenth century onwar…
