Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-10T17:25:14.865Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Borneo and British Intervention in Malaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Nicholas Tarling
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The controversy that has surrounded the question of British intervention in Malaya has turned upon a number of issues. What was the importance of economic factors? What was the significance of imperialism? What was the role of local initiative? Was the British Government bringing order to troubled native states? Was it responding to commercial pressures? Was it protecting its established interests in the Straits? In a well-known book, C.D. Cowan added to a careful analysis of such issues the suggestion that fear of foreign intervention was decisive. It affected Kimberley, the Colonial Secretary, and he impressed it on Gladstone himself.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 5 , Special Issue 2: The Centenary of British Intervention in Malaya , September 1974 , pp. 159 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1974

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Cowan, C.D., Nineteenth-century Malaya: The Origins of British Political Control, London, 1961, pp. 166 ff.Google Scholar

2 Tarling, N., ‘Intervention and Non-intervention in Malaya’, The Journal of Asian Studies, XXI, 4, August 1962, 526.Google Scholar

3 Tarling, N., Britain, the Brookes and Brunei, Kuala Lumpur, 1971. The work on Sulu and Sabah is forthcoming.Google Scholar

4 Note on Memorandum of 15 January 1824, Dutch Records A 31, India Office Library.

5 Tarling, N., Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Malay World, 1780–1824, St. Lucia and London, 1962, p. 172.Google Scholar

6 Memorandum, 18 August 1860, Foreign Office (FO) 12/28, Public Record Office (hereafter cited as PRO).Google Scholar

7 Brooke to Palmerston, 21 June 1849, FO 12/7.Google Scholar

8 Tarling, Britain, the Brookes and Brunei, p. 163.

9 Enclosure in Admiralty to Foreign Office, 7 December 1871, FO 71/2; Hunter, S. C., ‘English, German, Spanish Relations in the Sulu Question, 1871–1877’, M.Sc. (Econ.) thesis, University of London, 1963, p. 46.Google Scholar

10 Callaghan to Foreign Office, 7 May 1866, No. 3, FO 12/33A.

11 Angelini, S., ‘II tentative italiano per una colonia nel Borneo (1870–1873)’, Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali, XXXIII, 4, October-December 1966, 526 ff.Google Scholar

12 Reid, A. J. S., ‘Nineteenth Century Pan-Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia’, The Journal of Asian Studies, XXVI, 2, February 1967, 273–5.Google Scholar

13 Granville to Sultan, 19 November 1872, FO 71/2.

14 Bulwer to Granville, 22 March, 10 April 1873, FO 71/3; also in Bulwer to Kimberley, s.d., Colonial Office (CO) 144/40 [4638, 5293], PRO.

15 Bulwer to Granville, 9 August 1873, FO 71/3; also in Bulwer to Kimberley, s.d., CO 144/41 [10241].

16 Colonial Office to Foreign Office, 19 May 1873, on CO 144/40 [4638]; FO 71/3.

17 Kimberley to Granville, 15 May 1873, Granville Papers, PRO 30/29/55, p. 313.

18 Russell to Granville, 21 November 1873, No. 395, FO 71/3.

19 The phrase was used by the Pall Mall Gazette, 13 January 1885.

20 Cowan, pp. 171–2.

21 Ibid, p. 170n.

22 Memorandum by Kimberley, 13 July 1880, FO 12/55; CO 144/54 [10768].

23 Memorandum, 22 October 1880, PRO 30/29/143.

24 Tarling, N., ‘Sir James Brooke and Brunei’, Sarawak Museum Journal, New Series, XI, 21–22, July-December 1963, 1–3.Google Scholar

25 Tarling, Britain, the Brookes and Brunei, pp. 222–4.

26 Tarling, N., British Policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 1824–1871, reprint, Kuala Lumpur, 1969, p. 197.Google Scholar

27 Anderson to Foreign Office, 2 November 1844, FO 12/2.

28 Tarling, N., “The Superintendence of British Interests in Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century”, Journal of Southeast Asian History, VII, 1, March 1966, 103 ff.Google Scholar

29 Tarling, Britain, the Brookes and Brunei, pp. 266, 276–7.

30 Minute, 18 May 1896, on CO 144/70 [10680].

31 Tarling, Britain, the Brookes and Brunei, p. 522.

32 Tarling, N., “Britain and Sarawak in the Twentieth Century: Raja Charles, Raja Vyner and the Colonial Office”, Journal of the Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Society, XLHI, 2, 1970, 25–52.Google Scholar

33 Bucknill to Collins, 16 August 1916, CO 531/10 [44414].

34 Bertram Brooke to Clementi, 9 September 1930, Clementi Papers.

35 Memorandum, 6 August 1930, CO 874/1113.

36 Tarling, N., “Sir Cecil Clementi and the Federation of British Borneo”, Journal of the Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Society, XLIV, 2, 1971, 12–13.Google Scholar

37 Memorandum, 16 December 1931, CO 874/1114.

38 Minute for Colonial Secretary, 27 February 1932, ibid.

39 Tarling, “Sir Cecil Clementi and the Federation of British Borneo,” p. 33.

40 The Times, 5 March 1959.