The Fall of Malacca
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The Fall of Malacca in 1511 was sudden, out of the blue and most unexpected. It constituted a nakba, a debacle in the Malay world. It is the single event that had a fierce impact on the Malay mind and its attitude to the others. No one can understand contemporary politics without understanding the nakba of 1511. In this book, the Fall of Malacca, the author attempts to bridge the gap between then and now. It will occur to the reader that the French were right after all...The more things change, the more they remain the same. But this book is not only about the Fall of Malacca. It takes a look at many related issues vis-a-vis race, religion, relationships, progress, nature of learning and in a way it explains the West total domination of world affairs in the last half millennia.
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