LEADER 03957nam 22005892 450 001 9910795916703321 005 20170608081810.0 010 $a981-4620-11-4 024 7 $a10.1355/9789814620116 035 $a(CKB)3780000000078729 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001516384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12567045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001516384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11494812 035 $a(PQKB)11339746 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789814620116 035 $a(OCoLC)913610675 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124044 035 $a(DE-B1597)491943 035 $a(OCoLC)1041992216 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789814620116 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5124044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11464865 035 $a(OCoLC)1011199564 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000078729 100 $a20161007d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTempler and the road to Malayan independence $ethe man and his time /$fLeon Comber$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aSingapore :$cInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 311 $a981-4620-10-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tLIST OF TABLES -- $tFOREWORD / $rShamsul, A.B. -- $tACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $tMap of Malaya -- $tPROLOGUE -- $t1. THE BACKGROUND -- $t2. THE EARLY DAYS -- $t3. THE TEMPLER PLAN -- $t4. Victor Purcell and Francis Carnell, Honorary MCA Political Advisers, August-September 1952 -- $t5. General Sir Gerald Templer, the MCA, and the Kinta Valley Home Guard (1952-54) -- $t6. THE CASE OF LEE MENG - A CAUSE CÉLÈBRE -- $t7. THE ROAD TO SELF-GOVERNMENT -- $t8. CONCLUSION -- $tAppendix A. Directive to General Sir Gerald Templer by the British Government -- $tAppendix B. General Sir Gerald Templer: A Short Bibliographical Note -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aDr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and socioeconomic aspects of his governance rather than the military. In doing so, Dr Comber has relied mainly on primary and other first-hand sources, including the confidential reports sent from Malaya by the Australian Commission to the Australian government in Canberra, and the private papers of some of the leading Malayan politicians of the time with whom Templer had dealings which have been deposited in the ISEAS Library, Singapore, many of which have not been used before.
The evidence and facts that Dr Comber marshals in this study reflect well the reservations that were often felt about General Templer's authoritarian form of government. While he was a good general and had an impressive military record, his administration in Malaya was marred by a lack of understanding of the background to Malaya's history and the subtleties that are inherent in its culture and way of life which would have enabled him to come to terms more easily with the aspirations of the Malayan people for self-government and independence. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political$2bisacsh 607 $aMalaya$xHistory$yMalayan Emergency, 1948-1960 607 $aMalaya$xPolitics and government 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. 676 $a959.5104 700 $aComber$b Leon$0665346 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795916703321 996 $aTempler and the road to Malayan independence$93793444 997 $aUNINA