From Blood to Public Office: Constituting Bureaucratic Rulers in Colonial Malaya
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2004
Abstract
With the transformation from the Malay kerajaan rule based on economic extraction and the capability to take life to British colonial rule, Malays aspiring to govern others were now subject to a set of mundane disciplinary techniques seeking to promote a bureaucratic ethos that precipitated around academic merits, team spirit and above all the strange distinction between public and private spheres of action.
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