1919-1941






Unfederated Malay States, 1909-1918



In 1909, Britain and the Kingdom of Siam signed a treaty according to which the latter renounced her rights of sovereignty over the Malay principalities of KELANTAN, TRENGGANU, PERLIS and KEDAH. In fact, prior to the treaty, Kelantan, Perlis and Kedah had been administrated by British officers in the service of the King of Siam. The 4 sultanates became British protectorates. Every Sultan was given a British advisor. In the case of Trengganu, which had not gone through modernization earlier as no Europeans had been involved in the administration, immediately major reform projects were undertaken. In 1914, the Sultan of JOHORE, traditionally on good terms with the British, formally signed a treaty placing his Sultanate under British protection. It thus became the 5th of the UMS.
The individual Sultanates retained a certain degree of political autonomy, as expressed in the stamps issued for each one of them.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Articles Malay Peninsula, Malay States, from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition
History of Perlis, from Dreamwater, from kampungku.com
History of Trengganu, from Dreamwater, from kampungku.com
History of Kelantan, from Hotel Travel, from kampungku.com
History of Kedah, from Hotel Travel, from kampungku.com, from Dreamwater
History of Johore, from Hotel Travel, from kampungku.com, from Dreamwater
DOCUMENTS World Statesmen : Malay States, by Ben Cahoon
Map featuring the Malay States, c.1908, from Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age
Rare Malaya States Stamps, from Sandafayre Stamp Gallery
Articles Dschohor (Johore), Queda (Kedah), Malaien (Malays), Malaien (cont.), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888-1890 edition, in German
REFERENCE Article Non-Federated Malay States, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1913 pp. 631-635 (on events of 1912) [G]
Articles Johor, Other British Protectorates, in : Statesman's Year Book 1910 pp.163-167, 1918 pp.169-172 [G]


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First posted on May 16th 2002, last revised on September 14th 2008

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