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At the upper end of the social scale, Malays make up the royal courts of the sultanates — country gentry enjoying an occasional game of polo and the other good things in life.
Apart from the few Malays in the settlements’ rural communities of Province Wellesley and the Melaka hinterland, most still lived inland along the middle reaches of the rivers, away from the coastal marshlands dominated by the orang laut pirates.
Under his administration, emphasis was placed on improving the status and position of the Malays and “other indigenous peoples. ”
Before disbanding — and stashing its weapons in the jungle — the army wrought revenge on Malays who had collaborated with the Japanese.
Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch allied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka.