The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya

Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere

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Hardcover | 30 January 1995

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This book, first published in 1995, is a study of political debate in an important Southeast Asian society. It re-examines the formative period in Malay nationalism and argues against using nationalism as the paradigm of analysis. By interrogating key Malay texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Anthony Milner shows how contested and problematic the sphere of nationalism was. Central to the book is the notion of politics and it explores the development of political discourse in Malaysia. By stressing the emerging tension in Malay political thinking between monarchy, religion and nationalism, the author provides an essential introduction to the politics and society of modern Malaysia.

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'This magnificent book is certainly essential reading for Malaysianists and Malaysians interested in the intrigues and mystique of Malay politics, in the past and at present.' A. B. Shamsul, Asian Studies Review 'The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya is a model of its kind and will undoubtedly become a landmark in Malaysian studies.' William R. Roff, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ' ... unusual, detailed and original book .' Asian Affairs

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Introduction: colonialism, nationalism and contest
The ancien regime: described and condemned
Establishing a liberal critique
A description of the real world: expanding vocabularies
Conceptualizing a Bangsa community: a newspaper of moderate opinions
Building a bourgeois public sphere
Ideological challenge on a second front: The Kerajaan in contest with Islam
Answering liberalism: Islamic first moves
Kerajaan self-reform: chronicling a new Sultanate
Practising politics in the mid-colonial period
Surveying the homeland
Sedar and dialogic processes
Conclusion: the Malay political heritage
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