‘Malay’ or ‘Melayu’/’Malayu’ in Association Names From the earliest registered societies to the outbreak of World War 2, altogether twenty one clubs and associations bore the term Malay or Melayu. In chronological order, these clubs and associations are as follows: 1901: Club Malayu Kabaktian Raja registered 10 Oct 1901, and with its address at 81 […]
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Malay clubs bearing the term ‘Peranakan’
Altogether eight clubs and associations in Singapore founded in the period 1898 to 1932 used the term “Peranakan/Pranakan”. None of these were constituted by Chinese Peranakan individuals. In fact the Chinese Peranakans in Singapore initially formed an association called the Straits Chinese British Association (1900), which was only renamed Singapore Chinese Peranakan Association much later, […]
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The Chinese Peranakan newspaper Bintang Timor reported in 1894 on the three oldest clubs of the Malays, noting that the new club “Darul Taallum Association” was established in that month (August 1894), an addition to the two existing pioneering Malay clubs, “Harbab Ashkedan Club” and “Darul Adab Association”. The three clubs had received approval letters […]
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This section contains excerpts from a study for a National Heritage Board (NHB ) Heritage Research Grant (HRG) “A socio-spatial history of Town Malays in Colonial Singapore: Associations, Activities, and Contexts, 1890s to 1950” Principal Investigator: Dr Imran bin Tajudeen Co-Investigator: Dr Suriani Suratman Collaborators: Ahmad Osman and Dr Hadi Osni Concluded on: 8 Nov […]
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Welcome to the front page of a series of ten excerpts from an NHB Heritage Research Grant (HRG) project titled “A Fine Grain History of Singapore Town: The Architecture and Socio-Morphology of Four Forgotten Neighbourhoods.” This project was led by Dr Imran bin Tajudeen from 2019 to 2021. This research project adopts a new bottom-up perspective to […]
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This page introduces a series of ten short articles that are excerpts from a research project for the NHB Heritage Research Grant (HRG) titled “A Fine Grain History of Singapore Town: The Architecture and Socio-Morphology of Four Forgotten Neighbourhoods.” The research looked at a number of historical urban neighbourhoods in Singapore Town that bear the […]
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