Kedah: the foundations and durability of Malay kingship

Kedah: the foundations and durability of Malay kingship
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foundation stories elsewhere
Covenant and the shaming of the Malay ruler
Introduction
Maps
Figures
DMCMW The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence, of the Marquess Wellesley
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1.0 Outline of the thesis
1.1 Analysis of ‘models’ of the Malay ‘world’
The ‘Malay models’ of Gullick and Milner
Tensions and variations in the accepted ‘Malay models’
The shortcoming of identifying the river systems as the only form of communication, as argued by Bonney (1971) and Trocki (1979, 2000) is further demonstrated in the historic case of the Minangkabau region of western Sumatra. According to Miksic (1989...
Consideration of Kedah’s main indigenous literary source
Scholarly studies of Kedah’s pre-modern history
The literary conversion story of Kedah
Early oral conversion stories
In the case of the oral tradition from Langkawi however the power of Hinduism and Buddhism in the folk tradition proved tenuous, and was easily transformed when the orthodox supporters were withdrawn. Thus, Islamic ideas and stories gradually replaced...
Chapter 2: The Malay Raja and his Subjects
Chapter 3:The Sultan and the Raja di-laut, or Sea Lords, and the control of Kedah’s maritime lines of communication
Scholarly studies of Kedah’s overland lines of communication
In addition to Wheatley and Benjamin’s arguments, Phan-ngam Gothamasan in a 1984 article entitled “Some Aspects of the Political and Economic Systems of the Nineteenth Century Northern Malay States: Kedah, Kelantan and Trengganu A Comparative View” su...
Kedah’s overland lines of communication
Conclusion
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