‘The Crucible of the Malayan Nation’: The University and the Making of a New Malaya, 1938–62

Stockwell, Anthony John

(2009)

Stockwell, Anthony John (2009) ‘The Crucible of the Malayan Nation’: The University and the Making of a New Malaya, 1938–62. Modern Asian Studies, 43 (5).

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Abstract

Like so many features of the British Empire, policy for colonial higher education was transformed during the Second World War. In 1945 the Asquith Commission established principles for its development, and in 1948 the Carr–Saunders report recommended the immediate establishment of a university in Malaya to prepare for self-government. This institution grew at a rate that surpassed expectations, but the aspirations of its founders were challenged by lack of resources, the mixed reactions of the Malayan people and the politics of decolonisation. The role of the University of Malaya in engineering a united Malayan nation was hampered by lingering colonial attitudes and ultimately frustrated by differences between Singapore and the Federation. These differences culminated in the university’s partition in January 1962. In the end it was the politics of nation-building which moulded the university rather than the other way round.

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Item TypeJournal Article
Title‘The Crucible of the Malayan Nation’: The University and the Making of a New Malaya, 1938–62
AuthorsStockwell, Anthony John
DepartmentsFaculty of History and Social Science\History

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doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X08003752

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