He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore

2025/05/02 by Allan T. F. Pang · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Socioeconomic Development in Asia

paper · doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2487616

openalex publication_date 2025/05/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

As Muhammad Suhail indicates in the title, this book centres around a political figure in Singapore named ‘He Who Is Made Lord’ (or ‘Yang di-Pertuan Negara’ in the original Malay language). In 1959...

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• Check out Allan T. F. Pang's book review of 'He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore' by Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid (ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023): doi.org/10.1080 [bsky, 10 points, 0 comments]

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