By Derek Heng, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
During the last twenty years, Singapore has complicated swiftly in the direction of changing into a either a world city-state and a key nodal element within the overseas monetary sphere. those advancements have prompted us to reconsider how we comprehend this altering kingdom, together with its background, inhabitants, and geography, in addition to its transregional and transnational stories with the exterior international. This assortment spans a number of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences and attracts on numerous theoretical techniques and methodologies so one can produce a extra sophisticated realizing of Singapore and to reconceptialize the demanding situations confronted by means of the rustic and its peoples.
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This dilemma has emerged because the scholars studying the Chinese from the Straits assume that this ethnic group was in effect culturally creolised, and thus, is not bi- 36 DEREK HENG THIAM SOON cultural. In other words, this ethnic group saw itself to a certain extent as unique, and not Chinese or Malay, even though they were able to operate within the Chinese and Southeast Asian island spheres. Furthermore, the terms ‘hybridisation’ and ‘bi-culturalism’ have become laden with significant implications in the current social discourse in Singapore.
The latter, too, had visited Lingga and offered his ‘inheritance’ on the peninsula to Sultan Mahmud, even as he competed with the Temenggong for the territory (Milner 1982: 67). However, his actions were read differently by the British in Singapore, who saw his intervention in Pahang and Trengganu as an infringement of the 1824 Treaty by a vassal of the Dutch colonial state. As GATEWAY AND PANOPTICON 47 British suspicions increased about the Sultan’s visits to Singapore, and his use of these opportunities to influence the politics of Trengganu, he was to exacerbate the tensions further in October 1856.
Even as the British authorities in Singapore and the Straits Settlements sought to minimize Company intervention in local or regional politics, the merchant communities and labour networks, especially the Chinese kongsi, were involved in prospective ventures at the invitation of and in cooperation with local rulers or chiefs. Taking the case of Selangor and Perak, for example, multi-ethnic coalitions (backed by merchant capital from the Straits Settlements) battled for control of tin territory and power (Khoo 1972: 71-85; Ho 2002: 12).
