Arudsothy for drawing my attention to this article. Mohd., Mahathir MP, “In Defence of Feudalism”, Opinion 2, 1 (November 1968): 183–84. He added, “But it is impossible to accuse the Sultans of oppression.” See Dr. He said the feudal system “permitted an orderly society” and particularly praised the undertaking by the vassals of a feudal lord to serve and defend the lord's fief in return for protection for himself and his land as “not only just but necessary”. In fact, in 1968 Mahathir spoke favourably of the European feudal system of the past, and also of Malay hereditary titles and the Malay Sultans. The reasons for the ban are believed to have been related to the author's outspoken views on policies concerning the Malays during the Tunku's regime.

On its first publication, the book was banned by the Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, but the ban was later lifted when Mahathir became Prime Minister. This work was written when Mahathir was in the political wilderness in the late 1960s. Google ScholarĦ5 Mohamad, Mahathir bin, The Malay Dilemma ( Singapore: Federal Publications, 1981), pp. Gullick, is the well-known author of Indigenous Political Systems of Western Malaya ( London: Athlone Press, 1958) Google Scholar and Malay Society in the Late Nineteenth Century ( Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1987). My essay was proofread and edited in less than a day, and I received My Feudal Lord Research Paper a brilliant piece. Only Maxwell went on to professional training as a lawyer, which may account for his controversial view that ownership of all land vested in the ruler. Honestly, I was afraid to send my paper to you, but you proved you are a trustworthy service. At their schools they would have studied ‘English history’ as a subsidiary minor subject (see the case of Maxwell). cultures which antedated medieval feudalism. But if they had gone on to university, it would not have been likely to enlarge their grasp of the subject, since they would in their time have been confined to classical studies, i.e. mid-Victorian English public schools, in their formal general education. Along with the text of OSCAR WILDE and MYSELF by Lord Alfred Douglas VED from VICTORIA.

None of the pioneers, Maxwell, Swettenham and Clifford, went beyond the secondary stage, i.e. Durrani's (1953-) My Feudal Lord (2008 is a challenging narrative to feudalism (Zaidi and Qureshi, 2013) in which Durrani breaks her gendered subalternity by taking divorce from her feudal lord. A point which interests me is how the European writers on Malay society, notably the prolific Clifford, picked up their conception of what was ‘feudal’.

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