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Malay States

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Malay States: see Malaysia West Malaysia, also called Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya (1990 est. pop. 14,400,000), 50,700 sq mi (131,313 sq km), on the Malay Peninsula and coextensive with the former Federation of Malaya, comprising the states of Perlis , Kedah , Pinang , Perak , Kelantan , Terengganu , Pahang
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Finally, social-political boundaries in precolonial Malay states were often marked by marriage alliances, in a form of symbiosis between local ruler and alien, often tribal, outsiders, as recorded for the Minangkabau (in the papers by Reimar Schefeld and Gerard A.
the Indian princely states, the Federated Malay States and the sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf) and even the French Empire (e.
Political correctness, for one, has reached almost parodistic extremes in badmouthing the dashing subject of Sir Frank Swettenham, 1904, governor of the Malay States and a type that would later inspire Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun.
 
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