Title
Year
Author
‘One story ends and another begins’: reading the Syair Tabut of Encik Ali
‘One story ends and another begins’: reading the Syair Tabut of Encik Ali
2017
Lunn, David
Byl, Julia
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Lunn, David Byl, Julia |
Title |
‘One story ends and another begins’: reading the Syair Tabut of Encik Ali |
Source Title | Indonesia and the Malay World |
Publication Date | 2017 |
Subject |
Ali, Encik -- Translations Syair Tabut -- Translations Malay poetry -- Singapore Jawi alphabet -- Transcription Fasts and feasts -- Singapore Fasts and feasts -- Islam Processions, Religious -- Islam -- Singapore -- History Singapore -- History -- 1819-1867 Singapore -- Race relations -- History |
Page | 391-420 |
Language | English |
URI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2017.1374012 |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 133 |
Description |
This is the first treatment of a hitherto unknown text, a hybrid lithograph-manuscript from 1864 called the Syair Tabut, or ‘Poem of the tomb effigies’, by Encik Ali. The only known copy of the Syair, held at Leiden University in the Klinkert collection, and transcribed and translated by Byl, Iskandar, Lunn, and McCallum (2017), describes the Muharram commemorations at Singapore that year. As the poet describes the procession and its consequences, he reveals much about inter-community participation in this ritual event. Significantly, the 1864 Muharram procession ended with an altercation that resulted in the banning of the ritual by the colonial government, and led to two major court cases on native culpability and police corruption. Encik Ali’s poem offers an alternative perspective, conditioned by the wide-ranging vocabulary and conventions of Muharram, a vivid description of diverse performances and events, a knowledge of Singapore’s urban geography, and the parameters of Malay poetry. |
"A fine sphere for female usefulness": missionary women in the Straits Settlements, 1815-45
"A fine sphere for female usefulness": missionary women in the Straits Settlements, 1815-45
1996
Doran, Christine
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Doran, Christine |
Title |
"A fine sphere for female usefulness": missionary women in the Straits Settlements, 1815-45 |
Source Title | Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |
Publication Date | 1996 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41493295 |
Call Number | DS591 RASMJ (CL) |
Subject |
Missions -- Singapore Women missionaries--Straits Settlement |
Page | 100-111 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 69 |
Issue | 1 |
"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s
"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s
2021
Yang, Anand A.
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Yang, Anand A. |
Title |
"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s |
Source Title | Empire of convicts: Indian penal labor in colonial Southeast Asia |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Oakland, California : University of California Press |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520967595-007 |
Subject |
Bhai Maharaj Singh Exile (Punishment) Deportees -- Singapore |
Page | 143-187 |
Content Type | Book Chapter |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Abstract |
Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.” That striking opening line from Edward Said’s “Reflections on Exile”¹ serves well as an epigraph for this meditation about a Sikh named Nihal Singh, aka Guru Bhai Maharaj Singh, who was banished to Singapore for his tenacious military campaign against the British after their takeover of the north Indian kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Colonial authorities extended control over Punjab first as a protectorate in early 1846 and then followed up with its outright annexation in March 1849. |
"Secret societies" reconsidered: perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia
"Secret societies" reconsidered: perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Editor |
Ownby, D. Somers Heidhues, M. |
Title |
"Secret societies" reconsidered: perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia |
Publication Date | 1993 |
Publisher | Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe |
Call Number | HS310 Sec |
Subject |
Hong men (Society) -- History Secret societies -- China Secret societies -- Southeast Asia |
Page | 259 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries
A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Crawfurd, John |
Title |
A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries |
Publication Date | 1971 |
Publisher | Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press |
Call Number | DS600 Cra |
Subject |
Southeast Asia -- Dictionaries and encyclopedias |
Page | 459 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Reprint. Originally published in 1856. Section on Singapore (pp. 359-4020 |
A gallery of Chinese kapitans
A gallery of Chinese kapitans
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Wong, C. S. |
Title |
A gallery of Chinese kapitans |
Publication Date | 1963 |
Publisher | Singapore : Ministry of Culture |
Call Number | DS596 Won |
Subject |
Chinese -- Malaya -- Social conditions -- History Malaya -- Social conditions |
Page | 114 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
A gazetteer of Southern India, with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore
A gazetteer of Southern India, with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore
1855
Pharoah and Co.
Walker, Charles
Walker, John
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Pharoah and Co. Walker, Charles Walker, John |
Title |
A gazetteer of Southern India, with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore |
Publication Date | 1855 |
Publisher | Madras : Pharaoh & Co |
Call Number | DS405 Pha |
Subject |
India -- Gazetteers Burma -- Gazetteers Straits Settlements -- Gazetteers India, South -- Maps |
Page | 728 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Compiled from original and authentic sources. Accompanied by an atlas, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments |
A judicial history of the Straits Settlements, 1786-1890
A judicial history of the Straits Settlements, 1786-1890
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Kyshe, James W. Norton |
Title |
A judicial history of the Straits Settlements, 1786-1890 |
Source Title | Malaya Law Review |
Publication Date | 1969 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/sjls11&i=46 |
Call Number | KA1 MALR |
Subject |
Yamashita, Tomoyuki , 1885-1946 Generals -- Japan -- Biography Malaya -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 Singapore -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan |
Page | 39-179 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 1 |
A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911
A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Yen, Ching Hwang |
Title |
A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911 |
Publication Date | 1986 |
Publisher | Singapore : Oxford University Press |
Call Number | HN770.2 Yen |
Subject |
Chinese -- Singapore -- Social conditions -- History Chinese -- Social aspects -- Malaya -- History Singapore -- Social conditions -- History Malaya -- Social conditions -- History |
Page | 433 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
A study of the trade of Singapore, 1819-1869
A study of the trade of Singapore, 1819-1869
Collection | Singapore, 1826-1867 |
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Author/Creator |
Wong, Lin Ken |
Title |
A study of the trade of Singapore, 1819-1869 |
Publication Date | 1956 |
Call Number | HF3869.2 Won |
Subject |
Singapore -- Commerce - History |
Page | 454 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Thesis (M.A.) -- Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1956 |
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