Unfederated Malay States

(ʌnˈfɛdəˌreɪtɪd)

pl n

1. (Placename) a former group of native states in the Malay Peninsula that became British protectorates between 1885 and 1909. All except Brunei joined the Malayan Union (later Federation of Malaya) in 1946. Brunei joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 but later became an independent nation

2. (Historical Terms) a former group of native states in the Malay Peninsula that became British protectorates between 1885 and 1909. All except Brunei joined the Malayan Union (later Federation of Malaya) in 1946. Brunei joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 but later became an independent nation

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The report on the 1931 census for the Straits Settlements, the Federated and Unfederated Malay States and Brunei, which is the census taken closest to the creation of "The Man from Greece", is noteworthy as vivid testimony to the "classifying mind of the colonial state" (Anderson 1991, p.

What is a "Man from Greece"?--The Micro-dialectics of Ethnicity in 1920s and 1930s British Malaya

These states and later Johor were known as the Unfederated Malay States, and their sultans had more freedom of action than the FMS.

Malaysian identity

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