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Selangor, Malaysia.
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
2003
Maps including a fold-out reprinted map of Seremban Town (c.1920), glossary, bibliography, index, viii + 211pp, hardback, upper corner upper cover bumped, an otherwise very good copy. The migrants from Minangkabau who settled in west central Malaya as separate local groups over several centuries brough twith them a distinctive social organization and land tenure based on matrilineal descent (the adat perpateh). Their search for political unity and stability as a state in difficult, sometimes turbulent times, reached its goal only in 1898. Thereafter, for more than half a century to independence in 1957, the confederate Nine States (Negri Sembilan) had to adapt to rubber which converted land to a commercial asset, and to growing Islamic influence and bureaucratic control that was less and less in harmony with ancient custom. Meanwhile education, social change and the evolution of a multi-ethnic society played a significant part in the modern history of the state. From the blurb. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 132504)
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british malaya
Colonial
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