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Rules for Rulers: Obscure Texts, Authority, and Policing in Two Malay States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2001

Timothy P. Barnard
Timothy P. Barnard
Affiliation:
The Department of History, National University of Singapore (11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570). histpb@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings of crime and punishment. Despite their many similarities, the manuals show that each Malay state had a distinctive character, and differed in its approach to issues of modernisation.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 211 - 225
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© 2001 The National University, Singapore

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