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Article: The British as Rulers Governing Multiracial Singapore, 1867-1914.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
- Author:
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This is a study of the policies and methods of the colonial regime in Singapore, between 1867 and 1914, in coping with a variety of problems presented by the main ethnic communities. It is a revised and enlarged version of the author's PhD thesis. In addition to the main subject of British relations with the Chinese, it has chapters on the Malay and Indo-Muslim communities, and on the ideology of British imperial rule in this period.
The first chapter deals with the Malay dynasties through which Raffles and his successors were able to advance from establishing a trading post to outright territorial annexation. The second chapter covers the little-known topic of the ...