Rigel Kent

Sungai Tmbk in the Sultan's letter (1876) Approximately 3 years after Kuala Lumpur was liberated by Tunku Kudin and Pahang army, a peculiar place name was mentioned, not once, but twice, by Sultan Abd al-Samad in a letter written on 20 Rabi al-Awal 1293 (14 April 1876). The name of the place was ‘Sungai Tmbk': . . . memberitahu kepada sekalian orang-orang di dalam Sungai Tmbk serta sekalian daerahnya sebelah barat dan sebelah timur daripada Sungai Tmbk itu, Melayu dan Cina, jikalau orang itu dapat sesuatu pergaduhan dan kesusahan, maka boleh bilang kepada mata-mata di situ . . . First, the people living along Sungai Tmbk was referenced. Then, Malay and Chinese people living in the greater Tmbk regions were called out and the areas were to referred to as western Tmbk region (sebelah barat) and eastern Tmbk region (sebelah timur). It appears to me that the Sultan was using the river either as t...

Water disruption at Pangkalan Lumpur On 29 March 1877, Captain Yap Ah Loy 葉德來 wrote a letter ( 1957/0000387W ) to Captain B. Douglas (r. April 1876 - August 1882, Resident of Selangor) to relay a water-related grievance at Pangkalan Lumpur tin mine. This letter is important because it contains several important metadata: The Indic title ( Sri Indra Perkasa Vijaya Bakti ) was invoked by Yap Ah Loy and he This shows that back in 150 years ago, it was perfectly reasonable for Malay courts to install their subjects with Indic titles and decorations, similar to the practices recounted in Sejarah Melayu. However, the way Yap addressed himself was not consistent, for instance, in 1881, he called himself Kaptan Cina Kuala Lumpur and not Kaptan Klang dalam Kuala Lumpur but he used his Indic title consistently. See Arkib Negara Document Number 1957/0001366W . called himself Kaptan Klang dalam Kuala Lumpur (Captain Klang in Kuala Lum...