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Is it really, Professor?

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 duration when Malayan Union was introduced. For a record, this is his claim:

The great Professor rested his explain as such upon a actuality which a Pangkor Treaty of 1874 in in in in between Raja Abdullah as well as a British Governor in Singapore did not discuss which Perak was to be colonised yet 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 correct in so distant 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 tenure of administered reality.

With all due apply oneself to a great Professor, a British entrance in to Tanah Melayu as well as their successive entrenchment in Tanah Melayus administration department department heading to during slightest a de facto colonisation of a total of a Tanah Melayu peninsula as well as her surrounding islets cannot be viewed solely from as well as within a outcome of a Pangkor Treaty alone. That would tantamount to an attempt to concl! ude a to tal 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, prior to a Pangkor Treaty, a British, by a British East India Company, were already deeply entrenched in Tanah Melayu. It colonised Penang in 1786. Penang was after reliable to be a possession of a British in 1800 by a afterwards Sultan of Kedah. In 1819, Stamford Raffles took it upon himself to bring Singapore in to a British fold.

Later in 1824, a British as well as a Dutch, presumably underneath a charge of a small godlike creatures residing somewhere within a plateau of Scotland, decided between themselves to order a Malay Archipelago in to two, thereby giving widely separated 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 but delay underneath a reach of a Colonial Office in London.

Meanwhile, in Perak, upon a genocide of Sultan Ali in 1871, a house energy struggle was brewing. The Raja Muda of Perak was Raja Abdullah. He should have left upon to take a thrones. As events would have it, a Raja Bendahara, Raja Ismail was pronounced as Sultan.

Perak was a abounding 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 enterprise to place Perak underneath British protection, as well as "to have a man of enough abilities to uncover (him) a great complement of government."

The British certainly did not need serve proclivity yet to lend their inexhaustible helping hands to a Malay woman monarch in need of course. With that, a Governor very kindly entered in to! a Pangk or Treaty with Raja Abdullah upon 20th January 1874. With which agreement in hand, Raja Abdullah was made Sultan of Perak (although Raja Ismail was progressing appointed Sultan by a Malay palace).

Raja Ismail (the afterwards Sul! tan) of march did not attend a signing of a Pangkor Treaty as he did not recognise a agreement for obvious reason. But faced with a competence of a very large as well as terribly friendly 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 substantial irony which Raja Abdullah after Sultan Abdullah was after thrown out to a Seychelles for conspiring to murder Birch).

Professor Datuk Dr Zainal was correct to contend which a Pangkor Treaty did not contend Perak was a cluster of a British. But certainly which does not meant which Perak was not colonised by a British.

So what if a British had pronounced Perak was usually a protectorate? Does it meant anything during all? What if a British had pronounced which Perak was a paradise where everyone could fume drug till they giggle as well as giggle as well as giggle as well as they die? Does which meant Perak was a paradise where everyone could fume drug till they giggle as well as giggle as well as giggle as well as they die? Just because a British had pronounced so?

The British, for whatever reason, chiefly because they had longed for to systematise their dominions throughout a universe for economics as well as social purposes (and additionally for gift 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 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 much of a difference in! in in i n between them.

A cluster is of march a state which a British had annexed or settled in. This state was presumed to be a jungle or a empty state where civilisation did not exist. And a very courteous British had of march detected which state, usually similar to Stamford Raffles did Singapore or Francis Light did Penang.

A dependency is a state which a civ! ilised a nd friendly (and generous) British had not annexed or settled in. This is a state where a British came in during a ask of a infirm woman monarch of which state. It is a state where a British came to assistance or came to discharge not by force yet 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 woman monarch 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 difference in in 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 correct 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 demeanour 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 guns as well as ammunitions distant better than a collective keris as well as parangs owned by a Perakians? Now, if which is not annexation of Perak, tell me what ! it is.

Then, because dont we (and a great Professor) dawn during a distinct conditions of a supposed treaty.

Raja Abdullah was concurred as a bona fide Sultan to reinstate Sultan Ismail who would be since a title as well as a pension of 1000 Mexican pesos a month.

The Sultan would embrace a British Resident whose recommendation had to be sought as well as adhered to in all matters solely those pertaining to a sacrament as well as etiquette of a Malays.

< div>All collections as well as carry out of taxes as well as a administration department department of a state would be done in a name of a Sultan, yet a Sultan was to oversee according to a recommendation as well as determine of a Resident.

The Minister of Larut would continue to be in carry out yet would no longer be recognized as a liberated leader. Instead, a British officer, who would have vast management in administering a district, would be appointed in Larut.

The Sultan, as well as not a British government, would pay a income of a Resident.

Perak ceded Dinding as well as Pangkor Island to a United Kingdom.

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 war with a British? Just cruise a actuality which a Sultan was to oversee a state in suitability with a recommendation as well as determine of a British Resident. Perak was not colonised we say, Professor? Well, last night we saw pink cows drifting over a crescent. Very nice.

Throughout a British presence in Tanah Melayu, we had 3 categories of states. The straits settlements, namely, Penang, Singapore as well as Melaka. Then we have Federated Malay States, ie, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan as well as Pahang. These states were all not colonised, according as well a British. They were usually protectorate. Yea, right.

Then we have a Unfederated Malay States, which were! Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Trengganu as well as Johor. They were additionally termed as stable states by a British. Again, which does not meant which they were not colonised by a British.

Under heated vigour by a British for example, Johor supposed a covenant of insurance by a United Kingdom in 1885. With which Johor supposed a British advisor.

The approach 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 technic! ally, th during is been colonised by a British is an action of colonial arrogance.

How did Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan as well as Trengganu turn stable states of a British? Well, usually as in 1824 when a British gods decided 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 over Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis as well as Terengganu which integrated in to a British realm in Tanah Melayu as protectorates.

Now, who gave a management as well as charge to a British as well as Thais to willy nilly confirm between themselves who to own what? The Pope? The British queen?

The small action of unilaterally dividing these collection of Malay states which even predate Melaka between themselves is flawless 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 not asked settlements or ask by a small people with vested int! erests. Under a stratagem of lending their hands to assists us, they raped, plundered as well as stole a resources. They invited as well as brought people from unfamiliar 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 small 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 a single Federation is p! roof eno ugh 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 compel all a Malay Rulers to contention to their audacity robe of dividing this territory as if we have been a small 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 discharge us? To contention as well their system? To their sense of justice? To their complement of polite service? we am not observant which their systems have been bad yet underneath what management did they conduct to have us adopt their systems alternative than a a single after another colonisation of a land?

Dear Professor, perhaps we should read a British Parliament hansard when they were debating a Malayan Independence Bill. In a initial place, if they did not colonize 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 Freudian moment, said:

Today, we have been setting a seal upon this work. We can, with Edmund Burke, rejoice which a ancestors have made a many endless as well as a usually honourable conquest not by destroying yet by compelling a wealth, a number as well as a complacency 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?

Posted byart harunat 12:32!

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Krissaid...: I saw those pink cows as well around about a same time we listened a great Doctors explain which Malaysia was never colonised by a Brits......; 12 Sep 2011 12:44
SANSIROsaid...: It's pitiable to see how stupid a academician's twisting a story! for pol itical masters.; 12 Sep 2011 12:57
Anonymoussaid...: So he's observant any as well as each a single who fought for Merdeka was doing it underneath a misconception. So who told them they were fighting for inde! pendence ...saje, for fun ke?; 12 Sep 2011 13:42
Mohd. Kamal garbage garbage bin Abdullahsaid...: I totally determine with we which Malaya was a British colony.

Our academicians usually have blind statements but carrying-out a consummate research upon this matter. One contingency be unequivocally sure prior to making a statement.Just supp! ose a NO N-PhD is able to clear his stand.

Good work mate.

Read my blog MALAYSIANS MUST KNOW THE TRUTH http://malaysiansmustknowthetruth.blogspot.com/; 12 Sep 2011 14:15
Anonymoussaid...: Why did a British erect a pillar in London with a difference &quo! t;Malay States" if they did not unequivocally "owned" Malaya? You can't unequivocally bell a cat unless we unequivocally own a cat, right?; 12 Sep 2011 14:22
Anonymoussaid...: I don't consider a Prof is which dumb. He is politically biased. There is no dual ways about it. Its mutually exclusive: possibly we have been DUMB or historically (read politically) biased.; 12 Sep 2011 14:32
Anonymoussaid...: Professor Datuk Dr Zainal Kling took a single word from a Pangkor Treaty - i.e. "protected" as well as made a towering out of it - as well as summed up his version of history.

If we was in authority, we would strip him of his datukship as well as professorship. Now we know because Malaysian Professors frequency write any books or journals - they know, they will demeanour st! upid!; 12 Sep 2011 14:43
Alexsaid...: And Tengku Abdul Rahman did not scream "Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" upon 31 August. He essentially shouted "Bebas Pelindungan, Bebas Pelindungan, Bebas pelindungan".; 12 Sep 2011 15:44
Anonymoussaid...: Art,

Totally determine with your analysis. UMNO has "colonised" Malaysia usually similar to what a Brits did in a 19th as well as midst 20th century. The schooled highbrow is playing with semantics as well as he knows a regularly smart to be interpreting story according to how UMNO wants a Malaysian story to be re-written ala UMNO's way.!

And by a way, we additionally saw a pink cows last night yet we yet they were floating lanterns released by small kids celebrating a moon baked sweat bread festival, which if UMNO wants us to believe, is essentially of UMNO start as they hid messages inside their UMNO kuih bulan to get all their UMNO members to fight for Tanah Melayu autonomy from a half dipsomaniac Brits.; 12 Sep 2011 16:03
Anonymoussaid...: I! can sup pose someone similar to this great highbrow 'advising' a Malay rulers to accept British change upon a basis which it will not be colonisation yet usually insurance all those years ago. To consider we still have them today.; 12 Sep 2011 16:42

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