Kedah Hoped For The Return of Province Wellesley in 1957
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
July 2011 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
Documents kept by the Colonial Office in London and released after a mandatory 30 years of secrecy are a source of exciting details. The significance of this source of historical material is raised all the more by the fact that governments of new countries formed from former colonies, like Malaysia, tend to treat information as a threat to their power and legitimacy.How the independent Federation of Malaysia would incorporate its various parts was not a given thing, and the issues...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
