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Templer and the Road to Malayan Independence : The Other Side of the Man and His Time by Leon Comber; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Dr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and socio-economic aspects of his governance rather than the military. In doing so, Dr Comber has relied mainly on primary and other first-hand sources, including the confidential reports sent from Malaya by the Australian Commission to the Australian government in Canberra, and the private papers of some of the leading Malayan politicians of the time with whom Templer had dealings which have been deposited in the ISEAS Library, Singapore, many of which have not been used before. The evidence and facts that Dr Comber marshals in this study reflect well the reservations that were often felt about General Templer's authoritarian form of government. While he was a good general and had an impressive military record, his administration in Malaya was marred by a lack of understanding of the background to Malaya's history and the subtleties that are inherent in its culture and way of life which would have enabled him to come to terms m

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Author

Leon Comber; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Publisher

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789814620109

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24