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03915aam a2200481 i 4500 001 9C2132D0403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 191203s2020 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019055320 020 $a 0367862395 020 $a 9780367862398 035 $a (OCoLC)1130376525 040 $a NIC/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d RCJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-my--- 050 00 $a DS595.2.E2 $b K36 2020 100 1 $a Kananatu, Thaatchaayini, $e author. 245 10 $a Minorities, rights and the law in Malaysia / $c Thaatchaayini Kananatu. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 211 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge contemporary Asia series ; $v 71 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Indians in Malaysia : A Diverse and "Quiet Minority" in an Illiberal Polity -- Theorising Politico-Legal Mobilisation of Minority Groups in Illiberal Polities : The Role of the Law in Constituting Identities and Grievances -- Race : Indian Identity, Grievances and "Rights" in Colonial Malaya (1890 -- 1956) -- The Quiet Minority : Indians and Legal Repression in an Illiberal Democratic Malaysia (1957-1989) -- The Unquiet Minority : Legal Mobilisation of Indians in Illiberal Malaysia (1990-2018). 520 $a "This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia. It examines the Indian community in Malaysia, a quiet minority which consists of the former Indian Tamil plantation labour community and the urban Indian middle-class. The first part of the book explores the role played by British colonial laws and policies during the British colonial period in Malaya, from the 1890s to 1956, in the construction of an Indian "race" in Malaya, the racialization of labour laws and policies and labour-based mobilisation culminated in the 1940s. The second part investigates the mobilisation trends of the Indian community from 1957 (at the onset of Independent Malaya) to 2018. It shows a gradual shift in the Indian community from a "quiet minority" into a mass mobilising collective or social movement, known as the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), in 2007. The author shows that activist lawyers and Indian mobilisers played a crucial part in organizing a civil disobedience strategy of framing grievances as political rights and using the law as a site of contention in order to claim legal rights through strategic litigation. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers examining the role of the law and rights in areas such as sociolegal studies, law and society scholarship, law and the postcolonial, social movement studies, migration and labour studies, Asian law and Southeast Asian Studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a East Indians $z Malaysia $x History. 650 0 $a East Indians $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z Malaysia. 650 0 $a Minorities $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z Malaysia. 651 0 $a Malaysia $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 651 0 $a Malaysia $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Malaysia $x Politics and government $y 21st century. 650 7 $a East Indians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901060 650 7 $a East Indians $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901074 650 7 $a Ethnic relations $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916013 650 7 $a Minorities $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023189 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Malaysia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204590 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Routledge contemporary Asia series ; $v 71. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721013640.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C2132D0403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search