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Raja Bilah and the Mandailing in Perak: 1875 - 1911

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Raja Bilah and the Mandailing in Perak: 1875 - 1911

SKU: M35 | Year: 2003 | Pages: 278

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Biographic Notes
  • Introduction
    1. The Padri War and Raja Bilah’s Migration to the Peninsula
    2. Raja Asal and Raja Bilah in Perak
    3. Papan Mines
    4. Raja Bilah, Collector of Tin Duties
    5. Expedition to Slim & Bernam
    6. ‘Mines are in Full Swing’
    7. Raja Bilah, The Penghulu of Papan
    8. Resistance to Corvee Labour in Lambor
    9. Tok Stia Raja and the Early Development of Batu Gajah
    10. The Papan Mosque and Islamic Administration
    11. The Identity of the ‘Malay Miners’ of Kinta
    12. Forest Conversation Destroys the Relau Semut Industry
    13. The 1887 Papan Riots
    14. Raja Bilah in Debt
    15. Imam Prang Ja Barumun, a ‘Maker of Kinta’
    16. The Gopeng Contingent
    17. Kinta Through the Eyes of Abu Bakar
    18. The Mandailing Cultivators
    19. Raja Mahmud of Sengat
    20. Raja Ya’qub as a Young Man
    21. The Rumah Besar and Shophouses in Papan
    22. Letters to Raja Bilah
    23. The Pengulu’s Court
    24. Raja Bilah goes on Hajj
    25. Raja Bilah’s Will
  • Appendix I-III
  • Notes
  • List of Illustrations
  • Bibliographiy
  • Index

Summary

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