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Glimpses of Penang's Past GLIMPSES OF PENANG’S PAST � Reprint of Articles from JSBRAS and JMBRAS Selected and Introduction by Badriyah Hj Salleh and Loh Wei Leng ISBN 978-967-9948-62-2 Published by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society © 2015 JMBRAS All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted or stored in a retrieval system in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without prior written consent of the Council of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Visit our website: www.mbras.org.my Email: [email protected] Reprint No. 33 Date: 2015 or Printed by Printer's Co. and Address... CONTENTS Introduction V Early Settlement 1. Memoir of Captain Francis Light, Who Founded Penang by A.M.S. 1 2. Early Days In Penang by the Rev. Keppel Garnier 16 3. The Settlement of Penang by James Scott, edited by K.J. Fielding 26 4. Francis Light and Penang by R. Bonney 43 Administrative and Economic Development 5. Plan for a Volunteer Force in the Muda Districts, Province Wellesley by the late J.R. Logan 70 6. A Note on Early Legislation in Penang by Tan Soo Chye 104 7. The Early Land Administration and Agricultural Development of Penang by K.G. Tregonning 116 8. Governor Bannerman and the Penang Tin Scheme 1818–19 by C.D. Cowan 136 9. Chinese-Malay Socio-Economic Networks in the Penang-Kedah- North Sumatra Triangle, 1880–1909: A Case Study of the Entrepreneur Lim Leng Cheak by Wu Xiao An 173 10. Ordering of Housing and the Urbanization Process: Shophoues in Colonial Penang by Mai-Lin Tjoa-Bonatz 207 People and Culture 11. Memorandum on the Various Tribes inhabiting Penang and Province Wellesley by J.R. Logan 221 12. Buddhist Temples and Associations in Penang by Benny Liow Woon Khin 231 13. Malay Words in Baba Hokkien of Penang by Teoh Boon Seong & Lim Beng Soon 268 14. Malays and the Red and White Flag Societies in Penang, 1830s–1920s by Mahani Musa 288 GLIMPSES OF PENANG’S PAST INTRODUCTION This selection of articles on Penang from very early issues of JMBRAS, and its predecessor JSBRAS, is aimed at making them accessible to the general reader who would have difficulty in locating those individual issues of the journal. In particular, many would be hard pressed to acquire the earlier articles, especially those contained in JSBRAS, now out of print. As the objective is to make available articles from the earlier journals, most of which can only be bought in specialist antiquarian bookshops, or at flea markets where second hand items can be found, those in more recent issues are not included as they are available for purchase. Consequently, there are gaps in the coverage as particular topics and aspects of history, which can be found in the later issues, are not part of this selection. As we turn to Penang and its history in the pre-independent era, we need to continually switch between the local and the regional as a colonial perspective necessarily requires locating the local within its region, and within the empire. Themes of commodity production, of the promotion of commerce, among other considerations, were important concerns in territorial acquisition. This is by no means an ad hoc measure but part and parcel of wider processes of imperial expansion as the Penang experience will serve to illuminate in an examination of the factors in the East India Company’s calculation to make it a British possession. Unavoidably, the interaction between local and global dimensions also came into play as impulses emanating from the metropolitan centre in Europe form part of the narrative. Long-distance trade1 has been of significant proportions for Southeast Asia, an integral location in east–west maritime routes since the early centuries of the first millennium when the overland ‘Silk Road’ was no longer safe for travellers from circa third to seventh centuries CE till powerful Muslim and Chinese dynasties emerged to provide for safe journeys (Hall 2011, Park 2012). What merits mention is that Kedah ports – appearing in records as early as the seventh century with Chinese pilgrim Yiqing’s visits to Kedah in 672 and 689 in journeys to and from Buddhist sites in India – were IV GLIMPSES OF PENANG’S PAST in use before Penang under the East India Company (EIC) became the port of choice in the northern Straits of Melaka (Sen 2006). Indeed, along the lines of Geoffrey Gunn’s History without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000–1800, which speaks to the fluidity and ambiguity of physical and cultural boundaries in the pre nation-state era of Southeast Asia (2011, 2), this scenario resonates with the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural make-up of port cities like Penang. Their cosmopolitanism lend themselves to microhistories of different communities (for example, essays by Garnier, Logan, Liow), to topics on cross-cultural encounters (Wu, Teoh and Lim, Mahani Musa), and to narratives which blend the local with transnational spaces. The final articles relate consultation with senior officials of the EIC in India and London – besides Skinner, Scott, Bonney and Cowan, other essays which touch on the framing of policies in Penang that inevitably required the sanction of higher authorities are the articles by Tan Soo Chye on law and by Tregonning on land administration. In Wu’s essay, in addition to an examination of Anglo-Siamese relations, there is an overlap with the second theme where Chinese business links with Malay rulers are traced. The first section on ‘Early Settlement’ comprises three articles from contemporaneous writers, Allan Maclean Skinner, Resident Councillor of Penang (1887–1897), Reverend Keppel Garnier who served during the ‘Early Days’ as Colonial Chaplain at Penang from 1911 to 1936, and James Scott, Francis Light’s partner, with an introduction by K. J. Fielding. The first presents a blow-by-blow account of Light’s exertions from 1771 towards British acquisition of a base in insular Southeast Asia and his administration of Penang until his death in 1794. Scott continues the narrative on the conditions in Penang from 1794 in his report to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, which, together with the EIC Court of Directors, were the two bodies in charge of Indian affairs in London. Scott begins in praise of the ‘founder’ and his achievements before making a case for the company’s continued backing for the settlement as a marine and mercantile port “Eastward to the Bay of Bengall”, rather than the Andamans, acquired by the EIC in 1787. Scott, the acknowledged leader of the mercantile community, tasked to voice its anxiety over the rumour that the company might pull out of Penang, as yet unable to be self-financing let alone turn a profit, provides V GLIMPSES OF PENANG’S PAST a reference to the economic motives and the naval and security dimension of empire which were expected of Penang.2 On a lighter note, with the briefest mention of some notable Asian personalities – Nacodah Kechil, [Low] Amee – Rev. Garnier commented on the goings-on within European social circles, their baptisms, marriages, deaths, a veritable who’s who and a sketch of the pecking order! The fourth essay, a scholarly effort by Rollins Bonney from his larger study on Kedah, presents an opposing version to the favourable picture on Light’s efforts drawn from the first three. Not all Europeans were supportive of every British measure and we learn that there were those who were critical of the EIC’s policy and of Light’s role vis-a-vis Kedah, namely J. Anderson (1824), P. J. Begbie (1834), J. H. Moor (1837) and F. Swettenham (1907). Indeed, Bonney’s bibliographical references supply the reader with the range of requisite historiography for this early period, from nineteenth-century authors to the historical scholarship up until his own study. The title of his monograph, Kedah, 1771–1812: The Search for Security and Independence (1971), is an apt inference to the perspective of the Kedah rulers besieged on different fronts: the Siamese overlord in the north, with demands to attack Perak and to contribute to Siam’s expedition against Burma, and in the south, the Dutch and the Bugis. From these four articles, the following locations and peoples crop up in discussions in terms of interaction and exchanges: Penang’s hinterland and neighbours – from the north-western littoral of Southeast Asia (Burma, Siam, Sumatra) down to the eastern archipelago (the Malay Peninsula south of Kedah to the Moluccas); west to report to and consult with the Governor- General in Calcutta, as well as with the Court of Directors in London; and east to respond to the competition from European rivals, the Dutch in Batavia and the French in Indochina, including mention of China, with its perennially attractive market and source of the fabled silks, ceramics and tea. The second section provides a picture of how the ‘business of empire’3 could be served by the provision of the essential infrastructure of law and or- der so as to meet the objective of attracting trade and settlers, not to mention maintaining colonial rule. Of interest is K. G. Tregonning’s assessment, from his review of the exchanges between Light and Bengal, that, “As with the ad- VI GLIMPSES OF PENANG’S PAST ministration of justice, so with land administration. Bengal was indifferent…” Tan Soo Chye’s “Note on Early Legislation in Penang” reveals that, due in large part to the administrative machinery being grossly understaffed, coupled with the fact that “many systems of law were in force” before the first Charter of 1807 which “seemed to have been but rarely acted upon” (Kyshe 1885, 13),4 the following observation by John Anderson, Secretary to Government, 1826–1828, well acquainted with legal issues in that era, is thus not surprising: When the Court of Judicature was first established in Penang in 1808, its population amounted to 21,965 souls.
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