Traditionalism and the ascendancy of the Malay ruling class in colonial Malaya

dc.contributor.author	Amoroso, Donna Jean
dc.date.accessioned	2014-09-05T00:28:13Z
dc.date.available	2014-09-05T00:28:13Z
dc.date.issued	1996
dc.description	Ph. D. Cornell University 1996.
dc.description.abstract	Backward, traditional, and feudal have been common descriptions of Malay society through much of the twentieth century. In a broad sense, I will ask how that judgment became so common. More specifically, I will explore how a traditional ruling class under British colonial rule “creates a world after its own image.” In trying to survive colonialism, the Malay ruling class successfully universalized its image and interests onto an entire society and left that society ill equipped, in the early years of independence, to understand itself as capable of change. It was this legacy that Mahathir denounced and this era that, despite his theoretical forbearance towards the feudal remnants, he would do much to end.
dc.format.extent	348 pages
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10524/46328
dc.rights	© Donna Jeanne Amoroso 1996 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
dc.subject.lcsh	Malaysia--History.
dc.subject.lcsh	Malaysia--Politics and government.
dc.subject.lcsh	Malays (Asian people)--Malaysia.
dc.subject.lcsh	Malays (Asian people).
dc.subject.lcsh	Political science.
dc.subject.lcsh	History.
dc.title	Traditionalism and the ascendancy of the Malay ruling class in colonial Malaya
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.dcmi	Text

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