The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

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

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi