Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour: The South Asian Working Class in British Malaya - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1032283092 ISBN 13: 9781032283098

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Riassunto

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism – that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon – needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India. It examines the opportunities which colonialism presented for these people, highlighting also the British approach to colonialism in Malaya, an approach which emphasised conservativism and tradition, and which protected the interests of the Malay aristocrat classes and, by extension, the Malay masses in order to compensate for European economic dominance and the influx of a non-Malay labour force. Overall, the book demonstrates that the South Indians, a class whose identity, social existence, and prospects were inextricably linked to imperial processes, benefitted from colonialism, and should be viewed as an active transnational entity within a constructive system, rather than as passive victims of repressive, destructive forces.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja is a Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Shivalinggam Raymond is a research assistant in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032283092
• ISBN 13: 9781032283098
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Redattore: Sundara Raja Sivachandralingam, Raymond Shivalinggam
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania