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Malaysian Indians form 7% of Malaysia’s population and 80% of them are descendants of the British Empire’s “coolies.” Though an integral part of the nation’s polity, they are a marginalised underclass. The roots for this lie in colonial capitalism and the postcolonial state’s race-based policies, which displaced them from their traditional plantation and public sector work enclaves, into low-paying jobs and poor housing. Successive governments have failed to ameliorate their suffering, offering them only political expediency for electoral gains. The coolies’ plight can be resolv...

The challenge for the youth today is how they can build upon this legacy.

COMMENT | Factual errors and half-truths in our history textbooks Modified1:52 am - COMMENT | The latest edition of secondary school history textbooks in Malaysia, beginning with the publication of the Form 1 history textbook in 2016 and that of the Form 5 textbook in 2020, are lopsided (distinctively Malay and Islam-centric), biased (intentionally omit significant facts relevant to nation-building) and inaccurate with numerous factual errors and half-truths. To begin with, 17 out of the 18 writers of Form 1 to 5 history textbooks represent the dominant ethnic group. Hence, our young are now ...

COMMENT | Playing the 'pendatang' charade all over again Modified26 Feb 2021, 8:23 am A - COMMENT | It was refreshing to hear Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar say that Johor appreciates the role played by the Chinese community in developing the state since the beginning of the Johor Sultanate in the 16th century. He said the Chinese were invited to Johor as “guests” by his forefathers to help develop the state and were not pendatang (immigrants). They were invited to Johor to open the land and cultivate plantations. “They are the ‘Bangsa Johor’ – just like the Malays, Indians and ...

MalayPeninsula-cuylenburg-1898 $15,500.00 Title A Map of the Malay Peninsula Compiled by and Published for The Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Singapore.   1898 (dated)         1 : 506880 Description One of the most important 19th-century maps of the Malay Peninsula to appear on the market in recent decades, this is the definitive large-scale 1898 masterplan created by and for the colonial administration of British Malaya. This chromolithograph map captures a critical moment in Malay history where Britain was beginning to consolidate its suzerainty over the resource-r...