Notes

Malaysia: An Oriental Tourist's Haven along with an Anthropologer's Delight!

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia says: "the history of Malaysia is a fairly recent offshoot of the history of the wider Malay Indonesian world". It's so because historians and anthropologists could see very little aspects linguistically and culturally, to distinguish today's Malaysian areas coming from the lands of the Malay Archipelago. According to their research, present day division of the Malay community into 6 different states-- Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei and East Timor - is largely the result of external influences, such as the Hindu India, the Islamic Middle East as well as Christian Europe (west), China and Japan (north-east). Besides, the most immediate shipping route passing through the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia has the natural way been a melting container of trade routes as well as countries. As a result, it has been determined that the geographical position of Malaysia has virtually made it difficult for the Malay people to resist foreign influence and domination.


If one analyses the history of Malaysia, he can see these successive phases ahead of the last assertion of Malay freedom.


o The domination of Hindu lifestyle imported from India reached its peak in the fantastic Srivijaya civilisation in Sumatra (via the 7th to the 14th centuries).


o The introduction of "Islam" in the 10th century, resulting in the transformation of the Malay-Indonesian world, owning a deep influence on the Malay folks. The Srivijayan empire broke up into little sultanates, most prominent one currently being Melaka (Malacca).


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o The intrusion of European colonial capabilities as well as European domination: (I) Portuguese, (ii) Dutch as well as (iii) British, who established bases at Penang and Singapore. This triggered off of most inovative event in Malay history - the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1824, that drew a frontier between British Malaya and also the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia). Hence, the division on the Malay world was established permanently.


o The British had apparent economic intentions in establishing their empire in the Malay world. In colonizing the Malay world, they'd forseen financial revenue, banking on the clear attractions of Malaya, the box and gold mines. But, shortly after, the British planters began checking out the tropical plantation crops including coffee and pepper. On the other hands, right now there must have been a mass immigration of Indian and chinese workers to meet the demands of the colonial economic climate. to be able to meet up with the needs of a big and disciplined work-force, plantation workers, primarily Tamil speakers from South India and immigrant employees from southern China were shipped to the land. Thus, the Malay society suffered the loss of political sovereignty on the British and also of economic sovereignty on the Chinese.


Nonetheless, subsequent to the outbreak of Sino Japanese War through the 1930's, Chinese emigration to Malaya ended substantially, thereby stabilising the market situation. In 1957, Malay became an independent nation, with 55 % Malay public, and with abundant export industries, that comprise of rubber, palm oil, tin, and metal ore.

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