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The Malays as an ethnic group has been defined on the basis of both legal-constitutional and historical-cultural factors. While it is difficult to speculate or visualise correctly the future of any country or people, it is possible to provide a general outline of the trends of the past and present, and probably attempt to at least indicate what should be avoided and promoted to ensure a better future. This is what Dr Syed Husin Ali attempts in this book. In nine chapters, he discusses the Malays and their origin, history, religion, economy, politics and development up to the present day. He connects all of these to the various changes in the forms of modernisation and development programmes which affected, and continue to impact upon, the Malays. Three decades have passed since the book was first published. During that time many changes have taken place in the country. But the basic problems facing the Malays, contends the writer, have remained the same. The current controversies on the declining power of the Malays, as perceived by some, affirm these problems, and make the book more relevant.

143 pages

First published June 1, 1981, this book is reprinted edition 1985

Dr Syed Husin Ali is a retired academic and politician who served as president of the left-wing Parti (Sosialis) Rakyat Malaysia. He is also a prominent political detainee, who was held for six years without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, from 1974 to 1980.[1] Following the merger of Parti Rakyat Malaysia with Parti Keadilan Nasional, he held the position of deputy president of the merged entity Parti Keadilan Rakyat from 2003 to 2010. He also served two terms in Malaysia's Senate (the Dewan Negara) from 2009 to 2015.[2]

Background

Syed Husin Ali was born in Batu Pahat, Johor, on 23 September 1936.[3] Syed Husin Ali's parents were of royal lineage from the Indonesian Sultanate of Siak.[4]

He had three older step-siblings and three younger siblings including the activist/politician Syed Hamid Ali who was formerly head of PKR’s Batu Pahat division.[5]

He completed his primary and secondary school education in Batu Pahat, before going on to obtain a B.A. Hons as well as an M.A. from the University of Malaya (UM) and a Ph.D. (Social Anthropology) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the 1960s.[6]

Author and academic

As an author and academic Syed Husin has written and edited approximately 20 books.

Among them include The Malays: Their Problems and Future, Poverty and Landlessness in Kelantan, Two Faces: Detention Without Trial, Syed Husin Ali: Memoirs of a Political Struggle, The Malay Rulers: Regression and Reform, Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Harmony and Conflict and A People's History of Malaysia.[7]

As a scholar, he has constantly stressed the need to revisit Malaysia's official history, which he said is very often about individuals and groups in the elite strata of society.[8] He believes that there is also an alternative history that needs to be explored which tells of the struggle of the common man.[9]

He became a British Academy Visiting Fellow, at Cambridge University in 2005.[10]

Internationally, he has also been a member of the International Mission to Investigate Genocide in Bangkok, the Panel of Judges for the People’s Tribunal on Industrial and Environmental Threats in Bhopal, India, and the International Investigation into Deportees in Sri Lanka.

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