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Malay States

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Malay States
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(Historical Terms) (Placename) the former states of the Malay Peninsula that, together with Penang and Malacca, formed the Union of Malaya (1946) and the Federation of Malaya (1948). Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang were established as the Federated Malay States by the British in 1895 and Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, and Trengannu as the Unfederated Malay States in 1909 (joined by Johore in 1914)
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Marriage into the Malay community from other ethnic groups goes back centuries, but it may be correct to suggest that it was not until the rise of Departments of Religious Affairs and properly salaried religious officials in the Malay States during British protection that the shariah rule on conversion of the non-Muslim partner was at all rigorously enforced.
The penalties of apostasy in Malaysia by Kershaw, Roger / Contemporary Review
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE MALAY STATES THERE ARE HATS LIKE PLATES WHICH THE BRITISHERS WON'T WEAR.
Out in the midday sun? by PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Br Marius James Byrne, who had already made a name for himself as a successful administrator of the Brothers' establishment in Penang, in what were then the Federated Malay States, was directed to join the Armidale group and take charge, because of Br Anthony Jerome's having soon to return to base in Ireland.
Hardly a soft landing: the first Australian Foundation of the De La ... by Moe, Christian / Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
 
 
 
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