Early Singapore and the inception of a British administrative tradition in the Straits Settlements (1819–32
This article by J. Kathirithamby-Wells, published in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Vol. 42, No. 2, 1969, pp. 48–73), examines the formative period of British administration in Singapore and the Straits Settlements between 1819 and 1832.
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