A HISTORY OF NEGERI SEMBILAN

• Main Author: Gullick, J. M (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2003
• Series: Monographs of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society ; no. 33
• Subjects: Negeri Sembilan > History
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: viii, 211 pages Illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index
• ISBN: 9679948277; 9789679948271

The migrants from Minangkabau who settled in west-central Malaya as separate local groups over several centuries brought with them a distinctive social organisation and land tenure based on matrilineal descent (the adat perpateh). Their search for political unity and stability as a state in difficult, sometimes turbulent times reached its goal only in 1898. Thereafter, for more than half a century until its independence in 1957, the confederate Nine States (Negri Sembilan) had to adapt to rubber, which converted land into a commercial asset, and to growing Islamic influence and bureaucratic control that were less and less in harmony with ancient custom. Meanwhile, education, social change, and the evolution of a multi-ethnic society played a significant part in the modern history of the state