NUS Digital Libraries - Singapore, 1826-1867

‘One story ends and another begins’: reading the Syair Tabut of Encik Ali

2017

Lunn, David
Byl, Julia

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Lunn, David Byl, Julia
Title	‘One story ends and another begins’: reading the Syair Tabut of Encik Ali
Source Title	Indonesia and the Malay World
Publication Date	2017
Subject	Ali, Encik -- Translations Syair Tabut -- Translations Malay poetry -- Singapore Jawi alphabet -- Transcription Fasts and feasts -- Singapore Fasts and feasts -- Islam Processions, Religious -- Islam -- Singapore -- History Singapore -- History -- 1819-1867 Singapore -- Race relations -- History
Page	391-420
Language	English
URI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2017.1374012
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	45
Issue	133
Description	This is the first treatment of a hitherto unknown text, a hybrid lithograph-manuscript from 1864 called the Syair Tabut, or ‘Poem of the tomb effigies’, by Encik Ali. The only known copy of the Syair, held at Leiden University in the Klinkert collection, and transcribed and translated by Byl, Iskandar, Lunn, and McCallum (2017), describes the Muharram commemorations at Singapore that year. As the poet describes the procession and its consequences, he reveals much about inter-community participation in this ritual event. Significantly, the 1864 Muharram procession ended with an altercation that resulted in the banning of the ritual by the colonial government, and led to two major court cases on native culpability and police corruption. Encik Ali’s poem offers an alternative perspective, conditioned by the wide-ranging vocabulary and conventions of Muharram, a vivid description of diverse performances and events, a knowledge of Singapore’s urban geography, and the parameters of Malay poetry.

"A fine sphere for female usefulness": missionary women in the Straits Settlements, 1815-45

1996

Doran, Christine

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Doran, Christine
Title	"A fine sphere for female usefulness": missionary women in the Straits Settlements, 1815-45
Source Title	Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Publication Date	1996
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41493295
Call Number	DS591 RASMJ (CL)
Subject	Missions -- Singapore Women missionaries--Straits Settlement
Page	100-111
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	69
Issue	1

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"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s

2021

Yang, Anand A.

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Yang, Anand A.
Title	"Near China beyond the seas far far distant from Juggernath": convict workers and the making of colonial Singapore, 1825-1870s
Source Title	Empire of convicts: Indian penal labor in colonial Southeast Asia
Publication Date	2021
Publisher	Oakland, California : University of California Press
DOI	https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520967595-007
Subject	Bhai Maharaj Singh Exile (Punishment) Deportees -- Singapore
Page	143-187
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Abstract	Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.” That striking opening line from Edward Said’s “Reflections on Exile”¹ serves well as an epigraph for this meditation about a Sikh named Nihal Singh, aka Guru Bhai Maharaj Singh, who was banished to Singapore for his tenacious military campaign against the British after their takeover of the north Indian kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Colonial authorities extended control over Punjab first as a protectorate in early 1846 and then followed up with its outright annexation in March 1849.

"Secret societies" reconsidered: perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia

1993

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Editor	Ownby, D. Somers Heidhues, M.
Title	"Secret societies" reconsidered: perspectives on the social history of modern South China and Southeast Asia
Publication Date	1993
Publisher	Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe
Call Number	HS310 Sec
Subject	Hong men (Society) -- History Secret societies -- China Secret societies -- Southeast Asia
Page	259
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries

1971

Crawfurd, John

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Crawfurd, John
Title	A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries
Publication Date	1971
Publisher	Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press
Call Number	DS600 Cra
Subject	Southeast Asia -- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Page	459
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	Reprint. Originally published in 1856. Section on Singapore (pp. 359-4020

A gallery of Chinese kapitans

1963

Wong, C. S.

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Wong, C. S.
Title	A gallery of Chinese kapitans
Publication Date	1963
Publisher	Singapore : Ministry of Culture
Call Number	DS596 Won
Subject	Chinese -- Malaya -- Social conditions -- History Malaya -- Social conditions
Page	114
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

A gazetteer of Southern India, with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore

1855

Pharoah and Co.
Walker, Charles
Walker, John

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Pharoah and Co. Walker, Charles Walker, John
Title	A gazetteer of Southern India, with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore
Publication Date	1855
Publisher	Madras : Pharaoh & Co
Call Number	DS405 Pha
Subject	India -- Gazetteers Burma -- Gazetteers Straits Settlements -- Gazetteers India, South -- Maps
Page	728
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	Compiled from original and authentic sources. Accompanied by an atlas, including plans of all the principal towns & cantonments

A judicial history of the Straits Settlements, 1786-1890

1969

Kyshe, James W. Norton

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Kyshe, James W. Norton
Title	A judicial history of the Straits Settlements, 1786-1890
Source Title	Malaya Law Review
Publication Date	1969
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/sjls11&i=46
Call Number	KA1 MALR
Subject	Yamashita, Tomoyuki , 1885-1946 Generals -- Japan -- Biography Malaya -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 Singapore -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
Page	39-179
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	11
Issue	1

A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911

1986

Yen, Ching Hwang

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Yen, Ching Hwang
Title	A social history of the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya 1800-1911
Publication Date	1986
Publisher	Singapore : Oxford University Press
Call Number	HN770.2 Yen
Subject	Chinese -- Singapore -- Social conditions -- History Chinese -- Social aspects -- Malaya -- History Singapore -- Social conditions -- History Malaya -- Social conditions -- History
Page	433
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

A study of the trade of Singapore, 1819-1869

1956

Wong, Lin Ken

Collection	Singapore, 1826-1867
Author/Creator	Wong, Lin Ken
Title	A study of the trade of Singapore, 1819-1869
Publication Date	1956
Call Number	HF3869.2 Won
Subject	Singapore -- Commerce - History
Page	454
Language	English
Content Type	Dissertation/Thesis
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	Thesis (M.A.) -- Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1956