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35. Ooi Jin Bee, ‘Mining landscapes of Kinta’, Malayan Journal of Tropical Geography, 4 (1955), p. 52.
36. For this, see Francis Loh Kok Wah’s seminal work, Beyond the tin mines: coolies, squatters and New Villagers in the Kinta valley, c. 1880–1980 (Singapore, 1988), pp. 66–85.
37. T. N. Harper, The end of empire and the making of Malaya (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 96–101.
38. For a contemporary assessment see E. H. G. Dobby, ‘Some aspects of the human ecology of South-East Asia’, Geographical Journal, 108, 1/3 (1946), pp. 40–51.
39. State Forest Officer to Resident Commissioner, Perak, 3 July 1947, ibid.
40. Farmers of Bekor Sakai Reserve and Keledong Saiong Forest Reserve to Resident Commissioner, Perak, 3 January 1948, Pk. Sec/2777/47, ANM.
41. Petition of Chin Wong Peng and others, ‘Cultivation in Kg Bahru, Kuala Selangor’, 29 August 1946, MU/1437/46, ANM.
42. Harry Fang, ‘Who are the squatters?’, Malaya Tribune, 5 February 1949.
43. Farmers of Pokang (Kampar) to the District Forest Officer, 14 June 1947, Pk. Sec/1006/48, ANM.
44. District Officer Kuala Kangsar, memo, 16 March 1948, Pk. Sec/690/48, ANM.
45. ‘Pulling out tapioca in Comp. 16 Bikam and Comp 2. Changkat Jong Forest Reserves’, 12 May 1948, Pk. Sec 830/48, ANM.
46. Labour Department monthly report, April 1948, MU4181/47, ANM.
47. Labour Department monthly report May 1948, ibid.
48. Gamba, The origins of trade unionism, pp. 323–7.
49. ‘Interrogation of a Perak prisoner, MCP area representative, political’, supplement no. 7 to MSS/PIJ, 15 July 1948.
50. John Dalley to Hugh Bryson, 7 June 1967; 3 July 1965, BAM, II/19, RCS, CUL.
51. A. J. Stockwell, ‘“A widespread and long-concocted plot to overthrow government in Malaya”? The origins of the Malayan Emergency’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 21 (1993), pp. 66–88.
52. J. B. Williams, minute, 28 May 1948, CO537/3755, TNA.
53. J. D. Dalley, ‘Internal Security – Malaya – 14 June 1948’, CO537/6006, TNA.
54. H. James and D. Sheil-Small, A pride of Gurhkas: the 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Goorkhas, 1948–71 (London, 1971), p. 7.
55. Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 214–15.
56. J. M. Gullick, ‘My time in Malaya’, Heussler Papers, RHO.
57. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 118–19.
58. Dalley to Hugh Bryson, 3 July 1965, BAM, II/19, RCS, CUL.
59. Jean Falconer, Woodsmoke and temple flowers: memories of Malaya (Edinburgh, 1992), p. 136.
60. Quoted in Gamba, The origins of trade unionism, p. 346.
61. ‘Interrogation of a Perak prisoner, MCP area representative, political’, supplement no. 7 to MSS/PIJ, 15 July 1948.
62. C. C. Chin and Karl Hack (eds.), Dialogues with Chin Peng: new light on the Malayan Communist Party (Singapore, 2004), p. 136.
63. Chin Peng, My side of history, p. 238.
64. Ibid., pp. 209–22.
65. The Times, 16 July 1948.
66. ‘Document B.12: Translation of a diary found among the papers of Lau Yiew’, supplement no. 7 to MSS/PIJ, 15 July 1948.
67. ‘Document B.18: Translation from a pocket book in the possession of Lau Yiew’, ibid.
68. Noel Barber, The war of the running dogs: how Malaya defeated the communist guerrillas, 1948–1960 (London, 1971), pp. 56–7.
69. Ahmad Khan interview, OHD, SNA.
70. Kumar Ramakrishna, Emergency propaganda: the winning of Malayan hearts and minds, 1948–1958 (Richmond, 2002), p. 30.
71. J. N. McHugh, Anatomy of communist propaganda (Kuala Lumpur, 1949), p. 12.
72. Shamsiah Fakeh, Memoir Shamsiah Fakeh, p. 59.
73. Ishak Haji Muhammad to Chief Secretary, 28 June 1949, Tan Cheng Lock Papers, TCL/3/187, ISEAS.
74. Ahmad Boestamam (trans. William R. Raff), Carving the path to the summit (Athens, OH, 1979), p. 144. Ali Mohamed, ‘PAS’ platform: development and change, 1951–1986’, PhD thesis, Universiti Malaya, 1989, p. 27.
75. For example, Said Zahari, Dark clouds at dawn (Kuala Lumpur, 2001), pp. 280–81.
76. Dominic Puthucheary and Jomo K. S. (eds.), No