Anthony Milner 
The Malays [EPUB ebook] 

List of Figures viii

List of Maps ix

Preface and Acknowledgements x

Note about the Author xiv

1 Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’ 1

2 Early Histories: Engaging India and Islam 18

3 The Sultanates 47

4 A ‘Malay’ or Kerajaan World? 75

5 Experiencing Colonialism, and the Making of the Bangsa Melayu 103

6 Building ‘Malays’ into Nation States 145

7 Multiple Forms of ‘Malayness’ 186

8 Ethnicity, Civilization and the Fear of ‘Disappearing from this World’ 229

Bibliography 243

Index 275

Anthony Milner is Basham Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University, and was Visiting Professor at The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo) in 2007. He has also held appointments as Raffles Visiting Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His writings on ‘the Malays’ include The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya (1995, 2002), and Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule (1982). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.