McKenna was taken to the Police Court and remanded into custody by the Stipendiary magistrate
Thomas Stamford Raffles.
In particular, she adapts the postcolonial discourse of Edward Said and Linda Nochlin to shed light on Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles's intentions in establishing British influence and presence in the region, his wider political agenda, and the reasons for his failure to convince the government and the East India Company to establish their power in Java.
In 1819, Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles founded which colonial state?
There is a gleaming white statue of
Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore, at the riverside spot where he is said to have landed.
At Olivia and Co., it's hard not to get bitten by the travel bug as the resto reminds you of all the things you love about traveling: model airplanes hanging from the ceiling, cityscapes (murals), souvenir items from world's biggest cities, knickknacks that show off the resto's Singapore roots, and food!"The name of the restaurant is inspired by Olivia, the wife of
Thomas Stamford Raffles, who founded colonial Singapore.
The British government's decision to hand Java back to the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars was opposed by many of the senior colonial officials who had served in Java, with
Thomas Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd being the leading literary advocates for retaining Java for the British.
To acknowledge that the island has a history prior to the landing of
Thomas Stamford Raffles and the English East India Company in 1819 would open the door to numerous contestations that do not fit neatly into the dominant state narrative of a small, insignificant fishing village that British guidance and the modern developmental state has willed into modernity, and has been largely ignored in official accounts and textbooks in the nation-state until recently.
He says he is considering a digitization project on the life and times of the founder of Singapore, Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles.
In 1819 a representative of the British East India Company, Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles, recognized the commercial and tactical importance of Singapore, and intervened in a local civil war on the side of Sultan Tenjku Hussein, offering to recognize him as the ruler of the region and provide him with a yearly payment.
? Anne de Courcy will talk about The Fishing Fleet (Orion Books, PS20) at Durham Town Hall at 2.30pm on October 26 along with Victoria Glendinning who has written a book about Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
Formally founded in 1819 by Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles, whose name is stamped on the best hotel on the island and much else besides, Singapore was from the start a multi-cultural city.
Explore The hotel dates back to 1887 and was named after Singapore's English founder, Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles, who transformed it from a fishing village into a bustling trade route 68 years earlier.
