Indians and rural displacement: exclusion from region building in Malaysia

• Main Author: Anantha Raman Govindasamy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2010
• Subjects: JQ Political institutions and public administration (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20668/1/Indians%20and%20rural%20displacement.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/20668/; https://doi.org/10.1080/02185371003669387
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Building regions often creates socio-economic imbalances that exclude low-income earners from the benefits of development. In Malaysia, an example of this is the territorial and cultural displacement of Indian plantation workers by rapid economic growth and urbanisation. Since 1980, nearly 300,000 I...