The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?

This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before 31st of August 1957. This i...

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Main Author: Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling iium-527052016-12-02T01:19:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/52705/ The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized? Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin KPG Malaysia This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before 31st of August 1957. This issue relates to the question whether the states in Malaysia had been colonised or not. There is a view that the country has never been colonized because the British was invited to give advice the Malay Rulers of the peninsula as a result of protection agreements signed between the Sultans and the British’s representatives. These agreements did not allow the British to exercise any jurisdiction which means the states had never been under British colonization. On the other hand there are people who argue that the Independence terminated British rule over the country which means the state had been colonized by the British. The paper attempts to unravel the legal side of the issue so that the question of colonization of the states would be understood better. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52705/23/52705.pdf Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin (2012) The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized? In: International Conference On Colonialism And Ecolonization Challenges And Prospects (ICCD 2012), 17th-19th April 2012, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
description This paper seeks to clarify the legal status of the states in Malaysia before the Independence in 1957 as well as the status of Sabah and Sarawak before they joined Malaysia in 1963. There has been a controversy quite recently regarding the status of the states before 31st of August 1957. This issue relates to the question whether the states in Malaysia had been colonised or not. There is a view that the country has never been colonized because the British was invited to give advice the Malay Rulers of the peninsula as a result of protection agreements signed between the Sultans and the British’s representatives. These agreements did not allow the British to exercise any jurisdiction which means the states had never been under British colonization. On the other hand there are people who argue that the Independence terminated British rule over the country which means the state had been colonized by the British. The paper attempts to unravel the legal side of the issue so that the question of colonization of the states would be understood better.
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author Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin
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title The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
title_short The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
title_full The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
title_fullStr The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
title_full_unstemmed The legal status of the states in Malaysia before independence: Whether we had been colonized?
title_sort legal status of the states in malaysia before independence: whether we had been colonized?
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/52705/
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