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From Blood to Public Office: Constituting Bureaucratic Rulers in Colonial Malaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

Peter Triantafillou
Peter Triantafillou
Affiliation:
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark. His e-mail contact is triant@ruc.dk
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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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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 21 - 40
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© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

This article has improved significantly thanks to the constructive criticism of two anonymous referees of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Christa Armhøj and Rigmor Lond from the Copenhagen Business School. The research supporting the article was made possible by a generous grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council.