JMBRAS Vol. 86, Part 1 (June 2013)

Series: Journal of the Malayan/Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Date: June 2013

The ‘discovery’ of Penang Island at Tanjong Tokong before 1785: Bapu Alaidin Meera Hussein Lebai and Captain Francis Light — Wazir Jahan Karim (pp. 1–29)
The Stamp Office records, 1920s–1930s: a neglected database on Kedah’s propertied class — Khoo Khay Jin (pp. 31–60)
Chettiar moneylenders and rural credit in British Malaya — P.H. Kratoska (pp. 61–78)
The ‘Everett Collection from Borneo Caves’ in the Natural History Museum, London: its origin, composition and potential for research — Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Lord (Earl of Cranbrook) Medway (pp. 79–112)
Three men and a bird – Motley, Dillwyn, Strickland, and Copsychus stricklandii – and an introduction to Bornean nature for Alfred Russel Wallace — M. Laverty (pp. 113–119)
The Battle of Penang: 28th October 1914. J.R. Robertson — H.S. Barlow (pp. 121–122) [Review]
Anthony Reid and the study of the Southeast East Asian past. ed G — W. Cheah, Li Tana (pp. 122–124) [Review]
To cage the red dragon: SEATO and the defence of Southeast Asia 1955–1965. D. Fenton — Ahmad Mokhtar Selat (pp. 124–127) [Review]
Red star over Malaya: resistance and social conflict during and after the Japanese occupation of Malaya, 1941–1946. Cheah Boon Kheng — Rajo Sathian (pp. 130–132) [Review]
China as a sea power, 1127–1368: a preliminary survey of the maritime expansion and naval exploits of the Chinese people during the southern Song and Yuan periods. Lo Jung-Pang (.A. Elleman — Loh Wei Leng (pp. 132–134) [Review]
Kaleidoscope: the memoirs of P.G. Lim — Ruhanas Harun (pp. 134–137) [Review]

JMBRAS Vol. 86, Part 1 (June 2013)

JMBRAS Vol. 86, Part 1 (June 2013)

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