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Rules for Rulers: Obscure Texts, Authority, and Policing in Two Malay States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2001
Abstract
Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings of crime and punishment. Despite their many similarities, the manuals show that each Malay state had a distinctive character, and differed in its approach to issues of modernisation.
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