Introduction: Colonialism, Community and Ideology -- 1. The Ancien Regime: Described and Condemned -- 2. Establishing a Liberal Critique -- 3. A Description of the Real World: Expanding Vocabularies -- 4. Conceptualizing a Bangsa Community: A Newspaper of Moderate Opinions -- 5. Building a Bourgeois Public Sphere -- 6. Ideological Challenge on a Second Front: The Kerajaan in Contest with Islam -- 7. Answering Liberalism: Islamic First Moves -- 8. Kerajaan Self-reform: Chronicling a New Sultanate -- 9. Practising Politics in the Mid-Colonial Period -- 10. Surveying the Homeland: Sedar and Dialogic Processes -- Conclusion: Politics and Dialogue
Summary
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
Analysis
Malaysia
Politics
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-317) and index
