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100 1 _aMerican, Ahmad Murad,
_cProf., Dr.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aTHE AVATAR OF 1786 :
_bDecolonizing the Penang Story /
_cAhmad Murad Merican ; Copy Editor: Alimie Liman
264 1 _aPulau Pinang :
_bPenerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia,
_c2023
264 4 _a©2023
300 _axxxi, 113 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index
504 _aBibliography: pages 103-110
520 _aThere must be a closure to the history of Pulau Pinang (and Kedah). There was no 1786 treaty no agreement, no document, no signatories. The narrative continues independent of each other, representing an uncomfortable conscience glancing at each as two separate polities of Penang and Kedah, socially and intellectually structured by the year 1786. This book makes a strange revisit to pretension of a fact/event. And it counters the terra nullius doctrine. It also establishes that the lex loci was the Adat Temenggong (customary law) modified by the Qanun (laws) of Kedah. Malay collective memory maintains that Pulau Pinang is integral to the Kedah Sultanate. The island has law, order and society before the presence of the Europeans; not a "band of natives and fishermen" as stereotyped by the colonial narrative, even in the colonial courts. The Malays in Pulau Pinang in recent decades have become 'beggars' to their own history. This book contests that history through moral and legal arguments, as well as raising the themes and issues of representation and redemption.
650 1 0 _aDecolonization
_zMalaysia
_zPulau Pinang
650 2 0 _aGovernment publications
_zMalaysia
651 0 _aPulau Pinang (Malaysia)
_xHistory
651 0 _aPulau Pinang (Malaysia)
_xHistory
_y18th century
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_cLEISURE
999 _c1859
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