I contingency confess of being astounded by a explain by Professor Datuk Dr Zainal Kling which Tanah Melayu had never been colonised by a British, save for a period when Malayan Union was introduced. For a record, this is his claim:
The great Professor complacent his explain as such upon a actuality which a Pangkor Treaty of 1874 in in between Raja Abdullah as well as a British Governor in Singapore did not mention which Perak was to be colonised though was usually to be stable as a dependency of a British. The Professor went upon to contend which a usually states which were colonised by a British in Tanah Melayu were Singapore, Penang as well as Melaka.
The great Professor competence be scold in so far as historical terminologies go. But story is not about terminologies as well as semantics. True story is about contribution as well as reality. Of course, contribution competence be looked during from opposite views, angles as well as viewpoint ensuing in opposite interpretations as well as conclusions. Realities competence additionally be subjected to a same treatment giving rise to a term of administered reality.
With all due respect to a great Professor, a British entry in to Tanah Melayu as well as their subsequent trespass in Tanah Melayus administration department department heading to during least a de facto colonisation of a total of a Tanah Melayu peninsula as well as her surrounding islets cannot be viewed usually from as well as within a outcome of a Pangkor Treaty alone. That would tantamount to an attempt to conclude a total creation usually by looking during a moon alone as well as zero else.
Lets however proceed with a Pangkor Treaty 1874 (as a Professor had relied his thesis upon it).
For a record, before to a Pangkor Treaty, a British, by a Briti! sh East India Company, were already deeply confirmed in Tanah Melayu. It colonised Penang in 1786. Penang was after confirmed to be ! a posses sion of a British in 1800 by a afterwards Sultan of Kedah. In 1819, Stamford Raffles took it upon himself to move Singapore in to a British fold.
Later in 1824, a British as well as a Dutch, presumably underneath a charge of a little godlike creatures residing somewhere within a plateau of Scotland, motionless in in between themselves to order a Malay Archipelago in to two, thereby giving away Melaka to a British as well as Indonesia (Sumatera) to a Dutch.
In any of these 3 small states which a British saw fit to do as it please, they had a Governor who governed for a British. In 1867, these so called settlements became a Crown Colonies as well as came directly underneath a reach of a Colonial Office in London.
Meanwhile, in Perak, upon a genocide of Sultan Ali in 1871, a house power struggle was brewing. The Raja Muda of Perak was Raja Abdullah. He should have gone upon to take a thrones. As events would have it, a Raja Bendahara, Raja Ismail was conspicuous as Sultan.
Perak was a rich tin producer during which time. The British were itchy to get their greedy hands upon Perak. They were watchful for an opportunity. That event presented itself when Raja Abdullah wrote to a Governor of Singapore, Sir Andrew Clarke, spelling out his desire to place Perak underneath British protection, as well as "to have a male of sufficient abilities to uncover (him) a great complement of government."
The British surely did not need serve proclivity though to lend their inexhaustible assisting hands to a Malay ruler in need of course. With that, a Governor really pleasantly entered in to a Pangkor Treaty with Raja Abdullah upon 20th Jan 1874. With which agreement in hand, Raja Abdullah was done Sultan of Per! ak (alth ough Raja Ismail was progressing allocated Sultan by a Malay palace).
Raja Ismail (the afterwards Sultan) of march did not attend a signing! of a Pangkor Treaty as he did not recognize a agreement for viewable reason. But faced with a competence of a really big as well as terribly accessible as well as inexhaustible British, Raja Ismail could not do anything alternative than observant a bench being taken by Raja Abdullah. Sir W W Birch was appointed, pursuant to a agreement, Peraks 1st British Resident.
(It was with considerable irony which Raja Abdullah after Sultan Abdullah was after thrown out to a Seychelles for conspiring to murder Birch).
Professor Datuk Dr Zainal was scold to contend which a Pangkor Treaty did not contend Perak was a cluster of a British. But surely which does not mean which Perak was not colonised by a British.
So what if a British had pronounced Perak was usually a protectorate? Does it mean anything during all? What if a British had pronounced which Perak was a bliss where everyone could fume drug till they giggle as well as giggle as well as giggle as well as they die? Does which mean Perak was a bliss where everyone could fume drug till they giggle as well as giggle as well as giggle as well as they die? Just since a British had pronounced so?
The British, for whatever reason, chiefly since they had wanted to classify their dominions via a universe for economics as well as amicable purposes (and additionally for qualification for British citizenship) had categorised a conquests in to 3 classes, a colonies, a protectorates as well as a stable states. Semantically of march there have been differences in in between a three. But factually, it does not take a space station scientist, or a schooled garland of thick-spectacled story professors to know which there were not most of a disproportion in in betw! een them .
A cluster is of march a state which a British had annexed or staid in. This state was reputed to be a jungle or a empty state where civilisation did not exist. And a really civilised British had of march detected which state, usually like Stamford ! Raffles did Singapore or Francis Light did Penang.
A dependency is a state which a civilised as well as accessible (and generous) British had not annexed or staid in. This is a state where a British came in during a ask of a infirm ruler of which state. It is a state where a British came to assistance or came to administer not by force though by agreements or treatise. Yes. That is a protectorate.
A stable state upon a alternative hand, is a state which is stable by a British, again during a ask of a ruler of which state. However, according to a British, in a stable state, a British did not engage themselves with a governance.
Yes. That is a disproportion in in between a 3 classes of a British conquests. Who pronounced so? Well, a British pronounced so. So, if a British pronounced so, it contingency be scold right? Well, a British additionally pronounced which Maggie Thatcher had balls. Remember?
Relying upon semantics as well as these semantics were coined as well as used by nothing alternative than a British themselves a great Professor pronounced according to a Pangkor Treaty, Perak was not colonised.
Well, is it really? Lets look during a conditions of a so called treaty.
First of all, Raja Abdullah was admitted by a British as a Sultan of Perak in place of Raja Ismail, who was already admitted in suitability with a adat dan istiadat Raja-raja Melayu Perak as a Sultan. Now, competence we ask, upon what management did a British have which appointment? On a actuality which they have been white group with gu! ns as we ll as ammunitions far better than a collective keris as well as parangs owned by a Perakians? Now, if which is not cast of Perak, discuss it me what it is.
Then, because dont we (and a great Professor) loom during a distinct conditions of a so-called treaty.
Is this what a dependency is all about? Does it not receptive to advice to all of us which Perak was as great as being annexed in a fight with a British? Just consider a actuality which a Sultan was to govern a state in suitability with a advice as well as agree of a British Resident. Perak was not colonised we say, Professor? Well, last night we saw pinkish cows flying over a crescent. Very nice.
Then we have a Unfederated Malay States, whi! ch were Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Trengganu as well as Johor. They were additionally termed as stable states by a British. Again, which does not mean which they were not colonised by a British.
Under heated pressure by a British for example, Johor accepted a treaty of insurance by a United Kingdom in 1885. With which Johor accepted a British advisor.
The way Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan as well as Trengganu came underneath a insurance as well as became branded as Unfederated Malay States is an insult to each Malaysians. And for a British to demand which they had never officially as well as technically, which is been colonised by a British is an action of colonial arrogance.
How did Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan as well as Trengganu become stable states of a British? Well, usually as in 1824 when a British gods motionless to order this partial of a universe with a Dutch, in 1909, a British did a same with Thailand in a Anglo-Siamese Treaty 1909. In this treaty, these dual gods widely separated a northern Malay states in to two.
Under this treaty, Pattani , Narathiwat, Songkhla, Satun as well as Yala remained underneath Thai control, whilst Thailand relinquished a claims to sovereignty overKedah,
Now, who gave a management as well as charge to a British as well as Thais to willy nilly decide in in between themselves who to own what? The Pope? The British queen?
The mere action of unilaterally dividing these collection of Malay states which even predate Melaka ! in in between th emselves is incontrovertible explanation which these states were underneath a whims as well as fancies of these dual people, ie, a Thais as well as a British.
All a conditions coined as well as marketed about by a British were usually what they are, namely, terms. Semantics. That is all. The outcome is a same. They came in to a nation possibly by uninvited settlements or ask by a little people with vested interests. Under a pretext of lending their hands to assists us, they raped, plundered as well as stole a resources. They invited as well as brought people from foreign lands (I have to stress which we do not have anything against them) to work here. They afterwards widely separated all of us as well as ruled us. Now, if which is not colonisation, we do not know what is.
The mere actuality which they could come back to Malaya after a Japanese who kicked them out progressing in about 5 days surrendered as well as forced a Malay Rulers as well as everyone else to accept a Malayan Union (where they consolidated a Straits Settlements; a Federated Malay States as well as a Unfederated Malay States in to one Federation is explanation enough which they regarded Tanah Melayu regardless of their semantic classifications as their possession, as theirs to do whatever they liked.
Isnt which a trait of each colonial Master, Datuk Dr Professor?
If they had not controlled a total Tanah Melayu alternative than a Straits Setllements, how did they conduct to force each state to accept a Malayan Union. How did they conduct to enforce all a Malay Rulers to submit to their audacity habit of dividing this domain as if we have been a little garland of grapes which were to be graded as well as stomped upon by their feet whenever they please?
What management did a British have to administer us? To submit as well their system? To their clarity of justice? To their complement of civil service? we am not observant which their systems have been bad though underneath what management did ! they male age to have us adopt their systems alternative than a systematic colonisation of a land?
Dear Professor, perhaps we should review a British Parliament hansard when they were debating a Malayan Independence Bill. In a first place, if they did not colonise us, because as well as underneath what management did they have to pass an Act of Palriament in their Parliament to give us independence?
Sometime, people uncover their loyal colours when a speak. This is what a Secretary of State for a Colonies, Alan Lennox-Boyd, in a moment of Freudian slip, said:
Today, we have been environment a seal upon this work. We can, with Edmund Burke,rejoice which a ancestors have done a most extensive as well as a onlyhonourable conquest not by destroying though by compelling a wealth, a series as well as a happiness of a tellurian race. (emphasis is mine).
Yes. That was, as well as still is, how they saw us.
Their honourable conquest.
And we were not colonised we say?
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