Malays

Anthony Milner is Basham Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University, and was Visiting Professor at The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo) in 2007. He has also held appointments as Raffles Visiting Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His writings on 'the Malays' include The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya (1995, 2002), and Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule (1982). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

"The Malays - a volume in Wiley-Blackwell's series ‘The peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific' - is an absorbing read, clearly written not only for those already interested in the cultural dynamics of the island world of Southeast Asia, but also for everyone who is interested in knowing how to successfully fail in defining a particular race, people or ethnicity." (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1 February 2011)

• List of Figures viiiList of Maps ixPreface and Acknowledgements xNote about the Author xiv1 Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’ 12 Early Histories: Engaging India and Islam 183 The Sultanates 474 A ‘Malay’ or Kerajaan World? 755 Experiencing Colonialism, and the Making of the Bangsa Melayu 1036 Building ‘Malays’ into Nation States 1457 Multiple Forms of ‘Malayness’ 1868 Ethnicity, Civilization and the Fear of ‘Disappearing from this World’ 229Bibliography 243Index 275