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Article: Kingdom in the east.(White Rajah: a Biography of Sir James Brooke)(Book Review)

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White Rajah: a Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley, Little, Brown, hb, pp262, 16.99 [pounds sterling]

Author and anthropologist Nigel Barley could hardly have chosen a more enigmatic and fascinating character for his biography White Rajah. Sir James Brooke, the English founder of a line of `white rajahs' that ruled Sarawak for 100 years, was born in 1803 to a wealthy East India Company family.

Spoiled and pampered beyond belief, the undisciplined yet charismatic Brooke seems to have attracted fame and power without trying. After befriending the people of Sarawak, Brooke relieved the sultan of his kingdom in such a manner that the sultan thanked ...

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