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Mat Salleh and Krani Usman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Nicholas Tarling
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Mat Salleh was no nationalist rebel. No nation existed in the Sabah of the 1890s; as a somewhat jocular contemporary pointed out in the Pall Mall Gazette: the British North Borneo Company was attempting to establish a state. Opposition existed, but hardly rebellion. The opposition indicated the insufficiency of the Company's efforts rather than their efficiency. There was scope for political adventure. Such there had been in the days of the sultanates; such there was still before they were finally replaced. Mat Salleh's was an adventure. But, as he found, the scope was limited: the old world was passing. His challenge in fact forced the Company to become more efficient and bring the scope for adventure to an end.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1985 , pp. 46 - 68
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1985

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