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... coast of Sumatra . There are adequate records of those events , but the story did not extend to the Minangkabau settlements of the interior , cut off from the coast mainly by Bugis strongholds established on the west coast of Malaya in ...
... coast of Sumatra . There are adequate records of those events , but the story did not extend to the Minangkabau settlements of the interior , cut off from the coast mainly by Bugis strongholds established on the west coast of Malaya in ...
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... coast was alien territory . The situation changed in the 1880s when , in conformity with a policy of linking inland mining centres with the coast by a short length of railway , it was decided to build such a line from the coast as far ...
... coast was alien territory . The situation changed in the 1880s when , in conformity with a policy of linking inland mining centres with the coast by a short length of railway , it was decided to build such a line from the coast as far ...
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... coast . They could offer tempting sums to the chiefs who controlled the allocation of vacant land.5 The result was that much of the coastal fringe of Rembau and Sungei Ujong became waste land . On the inland side of the watershed the ...
... coast . They could offer tempting sums to the chiefs who controlled the allocation of vacant land.5 The result was that much of the coastal fringe of Rembau and Sungei Ujong became waste land . On the inland side of the watershed the ...
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The Twentieth Century | 93 |
From War to Independence 19391957 | 161 |
Glossary | 179 |
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