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A Malay of Bugis Ancestry: Haji Ibrahim's Strategies of Survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2001

Jan van der Putten
Jan van der Putten
Affiliation:
Leiden University
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Abstract

The descendants of Bugis mercenary forces that liberated Riau from east Sumatran invaders became an integral part of the local Malay community by the mid-nineteenth century. At that time Raja Ali Haji and Haji Ibrahim, two Malay authors of Bugis descent, wrote various tracts to legitimise their presence in Riau and to facilitate Bugis integration into the Malay community, but may have led to continuing divisions along ethnic lines in later years.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , October 2001 , pp. 343 - 354
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© 2001 The National University of Singapore

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