Rigel Kent

. . . aux environs du pays de Kalah et de Sribuza , on trouve des mines d’or et d’argent . . . Al-Mas‘udi (943) Muruj al-Dhahab wa Ma‘adin al-Jauhar translated by C. B. de Meynard and A. P. de Courteille (1861) Les prairies d'or et de mines de pierres précieuses, Volume 1 . . . I have already mentioned Sarira , which is situated at the end of Lamuri Island , 120 zam from Kala . God knows best! Buzurg ibn Shahriyar (c. 10th century) The book of the wonders of India : mainland, sea, and islands, edited and translated by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville (1980) Lahaina 1 noon or zero-shadow moment is a twice-yearly phenomenon in the tropics when the sun passes directly overhead at local solar noon, causing vertical objects to cast no shadow. It occurs because the solar rays strike the ground at right angle, and it is only observable in places between the Tropic of Cancer an...

. . . it starts with confused Malay traditions of the great empires of Byzantine and China, of Sri Rama and Hanuman and Lankapuri लङ्कापुरी from the Ramayana . . . as a Muslim, the author drags in the Prophet Solomon, king of the animal world and so lord of the Garuda . . . Richard Winstedt (1938) The Kedah Annals, JMBRAS 16(2), p. 31 Before Bangkok’s full consolidation of the south, Ligor was the primus inter pares among the southern mueang. It had long served as the southern gate of the Siamese world, a tributary overlord to the smaller Malay states, Trang, Patthalung, Salang, Krabi, Patani, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, etc. These Malay planets tended to orbit around Ligor, which functioned as the regional mandala-center mediating between Bangkok and the Malay world. This Ligor-centered arrangement was, however, semi-feudal and decentralized, giving the Buddhist state enormous leverage. ...

Laws operate apart from the purposes of the men who write them and the Malay Reservations Enactment, with all its weaknesses and imperfections, has been and continues to be a major force in determining patterns of land ownership, flows of capital, and access to capital as well as the character of the population in rural Malaysia. Paul H. Kratoska Ends that we cannot foresee: Malay Reservations in British Malaya I once bumped 1 into Anthony Milner at the History Department, University of Malaya. During our brief conversation, he kept circling back to a single, deceptively simple question: ‘What is a Malay?' For someone who has spent much of his career studying Malay identity, this was telling. It revealed the unspoken truth, that it is technically impossible to quantify a complex ethnic and cultural essence using mere words, let alone statutes. Before the rubber economy boom, there was little n...

Kami Dayak, kami bukan Melayu. Dayak dan Melayu adalah dari ras Austronesia. Tidak perlu memelayukan bangsa-bangsa yang bukan Melayu ok. Comment by a viewer named @borneandayak6725 on the clip titled: Asal Usul Melayu, Induknya Di Benua Sunda MISINTERPRETING WALLACE'S MALAY WORLD When naturalists point to maps of the ancient Sunda Peninsula and proclaim, “That’s the Malay world!” Their claim is totally understandable, since Malay was once the business language of maritime trade, used by merchants who came to the region in search of cloves, nutmeg, and sandalwood. In that sense, the term Malay world was, and remains, primarily a linguistic label for the region. Some scholars, however, take a more imaginative approach. Rather than engaging closely with the evidence, they spend years developing speculative ideas, sometimes for as long as seven years, based on the assumption that...