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MALAYSIA@50: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DISTRIBUTION, DISPARITIES

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Peninsular Malaysia, then known as the Federation of Malaya, gained independence from Britain in 1957. An expanded federation of Malaysia was formed in September 1963 by federating the Federation of Malaya with the former Straits Settlements island colony of Singapore to the south of Malaya, Sabah (previously run by the British North Borneo Company, set up by royal charter) and the former Brooke family fiefdom of Sarawak. After the Japanese Occupation of these British controlled territories in Southeast Asia, new political arrangements were introduced to cope with the growing anti-colonial sentiments and mobilization in British Malaya (including Singapore), North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei. Although the term Malaysia had been used to refer to different political spaces in the region for some time, the creation of the new federation only began in earnest from 1961 as the British sought to preserve their hegemony in the disparate British controlled territories in Southeast Asia in the face of internal dissent encouraged by regional rivalries supported, in turn, by external political competition (Poulgrain 1998).
The new nation of Malaysia was created in the face of opposition from two of its powerful neighbours, Indonesia and the Philippines. The sultanate of Brunei opted out of joining the new federation at the last minute. Less than two years later, in August 1965, Singapore seceded from Malaysia to become the Republic of Singapore, leaving thirteen states in Malaysia, with special terms and conditions for the Borneo states’ integration into the expanded nation. Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo were referred to as East Malaysia for more than half a decade until the secession of East Pakistan, comprising the former East Bengal, from Pakistan to form Bangladesh.

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MALAYSIA@50: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DISTRIBUTION, DISPARITIES

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USA : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.., 2014

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1-215

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English

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978-981-4571-38-8

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1st Edtion

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Economics

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