Content:

Book One: The History

1. Early Times and the Malacca Sultanate
2. The Portuguese Era
3. The Dutch East India Company
4. The Establishment of British Rule
5. Land and Revenue Questions
6. The Question of Jurisdiction
7. The War
8. The Post-War Settlement
9. The English East India Company’s Administration
10. The India Office
11. The Early Year under the Colonial Office
12. The Winds of Change
13. The Reforming Legislation
14. The District Administration
15. ‘Prosperity and Peace in this Fertile Corner’
16. Depression, Restriction, War, Emergency and Independence

1. The Literary Approach
2. Village Authority: the Family, Clan and its Inheritance
3. Marriage and Marital Possessions
4. Dissolution of Marriage
5. Clan Membership and Adoption
6. The Hierarchy, its Jurisdiction and the Gap between Customary and Statute Law
7. The Naning Community

1. Political Currents
2. The Custome and Change

Envoy
Appendices
References
Sources and Authorities
Index

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