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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 08:59 |
The article presents information on urbanization in Malaya. The peoples of Malaya are of different racial origins, have different religious practices, different social customs and to a large degree different occupations. The influx of immigrants began when the British became interested in large scale economic development of Malayan rubber and tin resources in the nineteenth century. The Malays preferred to remain on their own farms instead of working as laborers on the rubber estates and in the tin mines of the foreigners, and the British recruited willing Chinese and Indian labor. The present political structure of Malaya is the product of a reorganization that was finally agreed upon in February 1948 after much wrangling and jockeying for power by the Malays and Chinese. [ Download] |
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