During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and
Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved …

Contents cholarly acknowledgments usually follow an established narrative arc. Carefully
noting our appreciation for everyone who made the publication possible, we advance to the …

In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a “landless proletariat” and
despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common …

This essay argues for creolization as a salient theoretical and historical category for Indian
cultural history that can offer an epistemic alternative to its land-centric bias. Through literary …

Does the industrial development of a country entail the democratization of its political
system? Malaysia in the World Economy examines this theme with regards to Malaysia in …

Although stylistic analysis is the most popular approach in the learning and teaching of an
introductory analysis to novels, a very little pedagogical demonstration has been done in the …

This article brings together three seemingly disparate texts, namely, KS Jomo and Josie
Zaini's Meena: A Plantation Child Worker, KS Maniam's Between Lives and Preeta …

This paper explores religious mobilities within the Roman Catholic context by focusing on
transformations to Tamil Catholic ontology in nineteenth-century colonial Malaya. It …

This study aimed to discover the historical background of the Malaysian Tamil folk songs.
Qualitative approaches with historical, descriptive and explanatory designs were used for …

In this chapter we focus on the intersection of language and identity by foregrounding
socioeconomic and institutional processes rooted in dynamics of power and global histories …