British Malaya · event 6 of 7

1930

The Depression. Tin and rubber prices collapse. Thousands of Chinese and Indian labourers are repatriated, and the plural society the colonial economy created is exposed as something nobody had planned for and nobody governed.

The British Malaya era

  1. 1896
  2. 1897
  3. 1909
  4. 1910
  5. 1922
  6. 1930
  7. 1939

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