Rules for Rulers: Obscure Texts, Authority, and Policing in Two Malay States. From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: June 1, 2001| Author: Barnard, Timothy P. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Singapore University Press Pte Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings of crime and punishment. Despite their many similarities, the manuals show that each Malay state had a distinctive character, and differed in its approach to issues of modernisation.

In 1893 a pamphlet explaining police regulations for the sultanate o...

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