History & Culture & Politics (GR)

Where Monsoons Meet attempts to lead a new path away from the beaten tracks. The history book of Malaya is refreshing in its highly readable and entertaining cartoon presentation. Content wise, it breaks new grounds by recounting Malayan history from the peoples point of view.

This book presents a brief people’s history of Malaysia (formerly Malaya). Its approach is different from that which is often regarded as Official History because it focuses upon the process of making history from below, through the contribution of everyday people to the history of Malaya and Malaysia, and is...

In Class, Race and Colonialism in Peninsular Malaysia: A Political History of Malaysian Indians, Michael Stenson offers the authoritative political history of ethnic Indians in colonial and early post-colonial Malaya. Rejecting the plural society approach, he discusses relevant aspects of the political economy of colonial Malaya, including its class structure,...

The author is a criminologist, crime analyst, and former graft-buster who highlights the evils of graft and crime, how to detect, deter and measure it, and offers solutions to curb and prevent it. Various criminological theories are discussed as we get introduced to, in an easy to understand and unbiased...

The Story of Bentong Kali details the rise and fall of one of Malaysia’s most notorious gangsters Kalimuthu a/l Pakirisamy, better known as Bentong Kali, who terrorised the nation in the early 1990s. On the front of every newspaper, he was believed to be behind at least 16 murders and...

Cultural mapping is an approach to recording and revealing an integrated picture of cultural character, significance and workings of a place. The second edition of Janet Pillai’s book contains everything you need to know about this process, and how to plan and begin your own projects. “This guide on Cultural...

In a period where no native scholars of equal repute existed, where no one possessed similar levels of extensiveness and depth in terms of understanding Malay culture and literature, it must be admitted that the Orientalist stand taken by scholars like Winstedt was unavoidable. As a matter of fact, even...

Korupsi dan Kemunafikan dalam Politik Melayu: Perlunya Disegerakan Transformasi Moral-Etika memberikan prinsip-prinsip yang rasional dan garis panduan yang sepatutnya dikaji dan dilaksanakan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Muslim untuk menemukan kembali jalan yang betul kepada pengembalian kepada sebuah perubahan moral warganegara seluruhnya dalam permasalahan rasuah. Melihat kepada fenomena korupsi politik dan kemunafikan dalam...

In the book, Prof. M. Kamal Hassan touches on how the agenda of national integration has been trampled under the boots of ugly ethnoreligious polarisation, hypocritical narratives, and worrying direction of national politics which is reversing the intended outcome and worsening political instability. The author emphasised how racially-motivated political strategies...

CORRUPTION is a disease that can sweep through a society like a tidal wave, leaving in its wake a trail of negligence, lethargy, inefficiency and callous disregard of man’s inhumanity to man. What is it like to live in such a society? Why has it taken such strong root in...

In this book fourteen leading scholars and intellectual-activists provide a collective treatment of the theme of colonialism in the Malay Archipelago from the as yet little explored perspective of civilisational encounters. The centuries-long Western colonial presence in the Archipelago had generated both peaceful and violent encounters that were to prove...

Sabah’s 2020 election was Malaysia’s first p4ndemic election. While attention centres on the election’s impact on the spread of C0vid-19, this collection brings together scholars, journalists and social activists who were on the ground in Sabah to analyse what happened, why and the broader implications of the outcome for Sabah...

Life in 16th-century Malacca—as it is in Malaysia today—was centered on power and politics, trade and commerce, rivalry and strife, race and religion, and war and peace. As the leading entrepot of the Nusantara, Malacca grew rich and prosperous. Then things took a familiar turn. The political ethos of the...

Anak Malaysia menukilkan kisah Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad yang membesar dalam era Malaysia di bawah tampuk pemerintahan rejim autoritarian Perdana Menteri Mahathir Mohamad, episod-episod sengsara negara seperti peristiwa 13 Mei dan pemenjaraan Anwar Ibrahim antara asbab beliau menyertai gerakan Reformasi. Sebagai ahli Parti Keadilan Rakyat (KEADILAN), beliau menjadi wakil negeri...

Rahmatan lil Alamin, Maqasid Syariah dan Model Malaysia adalah antara gagasan yang dimulakan oleh penulis sebaik sahaja dilantik menjadi Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Hal Ehwal Agama) apabila kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dibentuk selepas kemenangan bersejarah 9 Mei 2018. Dalam masa singkat, penulis telah berjaya menjadikan dasar baru pentadbiran Islam ini...

"... a brave analysis of crude communal populism, corrupt crony capitalism, fueled today by the privatization of state assets, and the lasting impact on Malaysias maligned and vulnerable ethnic minorities of state violence." — Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, London This is the second edition of Kua Kia Soongs...

"Kua Kia Soong’s latest book awakens Malaysians to the distressing dilemma that lies ahead. His scholarly meticulousness as a social scientist can be observed in the pages of this provocative and controversial collection. His erudite penmanship and tireless dedication as a public intellectual are few and far between in Malaysia....

Bersih was ostensibly all about electoral reform. But it has become so much more than that. For Bersih was – is? – a Big Thing. You don’t bring the nation’s capital to a standstill – five times from 2007 to 2016 – without leaving an enduring impact. But how did...

政治漫画马来西亚的政治转型是一段漫长的过程，而且曲折艰难，原因是政治转型未必符合每个人的期待与利益，为此遭受不少阻力和冲突。无论如何，从世界趋势来看，凡是成熟的民主政体，才能起到保障权益、维护正义、尊重多元的作用，民主政治仍然值得追求。 民主转型往往不会一蹴而成，它既不是直线一条必达终点，也无法毕其功于一役，因而需要社会的耐心和毅力，跨过一道又一道的阻力。我们还应理解到，民主制度的完善往往需要以分阶段、分期付款式来促成，不是一步到位，致其超越负荷。 持平而言，自2018年首次政党轮替至今，马来西亚频密更換政府，皆以和平与不流血方式处理，社会上各族人民也逐渐以平和心态，去面对政府变更。这种政权有序转移的过程，对发展中国家而言算得上出人意表，国人在心理上也逐渐克服了对政治波动的恐惧与阴影，无疑是一大进步。

Malaysia is one of a kind. It is a unique and rare gem, a melting pot with an infinite mixture of ingredients. As Malaysians we are made from various races and different languages but this country blends us all together, coalescing all of our strengths and weaknesses. Blessed with abundant...