Tragic orphans
Subtitle: Indians in Malaysia
By: Carl Vadivella Belle
Contributors: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9789814519038; 9789814620123
Subjects: East Indians; Economic conditions; Race relations; East Indian diaspora; Social conditions; Social Marginality
Description: In 1938, noting that the bulk of the Indian population formed a ‰ÛÏlandless proletariat‰Û and despairing of the ability of the factionalized Indian community to unite in pursuit of common objectives, activist K.A. Neelakanda Ayer forecast that the fate of Indians in Malaya would be to become ‰ÛÏTragic orphans ‰ÛÒ of whom India has forgotten and Malaya looks down upon with contempt‰Û. Ayer‰Ûas words continue to resonate; as a minority group in a nation dominated politically by colonially derived narrati...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-489) and index.

In English.