No justice: 75 years after a British massacre in colonial Malaya British soldiers killed 24 innocent people in the opening months of the 'Malayan Emergency' in 1948. Relatives of the victims still ...

Similarly, about a decade ago, an academic from the National Professors’ Council argued that Malaya, with the exception of the Straits Settlements, was never a British colony.

In Malaya, Britain’s rubber-rich colony, last week the phrase seemed for once appropriate. Four years ago the British promised Malaya self-determination “in due course,” but did not fix a date.

It took time and patience to knit the skein of British colonial expansion into a tight empire, but the weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor ...

In 1937, a report was issued by the British Chiefs of Staff, one of the purposes of which, was to estimate the size of fleet required to safeguard the colony of Singapore in the event of war being ...

Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Hard lessons: the British and American armies learn counterinsurgency -- Organizational culture and learning institutions: learning to eat soup with a knife Summary ...

The British colonial regime in India was heavily dependent on the Indian Army. The Indian Army that had been used by Britain during World War II fought in Ethiopia against the Italian Army, in Egypt, ...

With the establishment of the British colonial administration and trans-regional networks in the 1830s, Bengali mobility into the Malay world took a relatively stable form.

In colonies across continents, elites were disillusioned with the obvious hypocrisy of foreign rulers, while foot-soldiers such as George Orwell found themselves uneasy with the violence of ...

The New Villages were built by the British colonial authorities when what was then called Malaya was besieged by a communist insurgency.