[ASIA] BRITISH RELATIONS WITH THE MALAY RULERS FROM DECENTRALIZATION TO MALAYAN INDEPENDENCE, 1930-1957

8vo.; in the publisher’s purple cloth with dustjacket; viii, [ix, x] ; [1]; 2-234 pages, including the Bibliography and Index; there are 8 unnumbered pages of plates; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~The contents are: 1. Introduction -- 2. Kingship within the British Empire before the Second World War. Rulers and Residents. Decentralization in the 1930s -- 3. The Imperfect Sovereigns: Britain, the Rulers, and Constitutional Development in Malaya, 1942-1948. The Planning of the Malayan Union, 1942-1945. The MacMichael Mission, October-December 1945. The Rulers and the Creation of the Federation of Malaya, January 1946-February 1948 -- 4. Sovereignty and Status: The Rulers under the Federal Constitution, 1948-1955. The Appointment of the High Commissioner. The Sovereign Status of the Rulers. The Rulers and Central Government. The Rulers and State Government -- 5. Malay Kingship and the Modern State: The Development of Constitutional Monarchy in Malaya. The Rulers in Private Life. The Rulers in Public Life. The Rulers and the Independence Constitution, 1956-1957 -- 6. Politicians and Princes: Challenges to Royal Authority and the Development of Malay Nationalism, 1946-1957. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.…