This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India.
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja is a Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia
Shivalinggam Raymond is a research assistant in the Department of History at the University of Malaya, Malaysia