ABSTRACT This article discusses the history of socioeconomic and political exclusion of south Indian labourers in Malaya in relation to the racial policy of the British administration from 1907 until the early 1950s. During these years, Indian labourers were susceptible to Britain’s policy of accommodating the political and economic needs of the Malays and the Chinese. Since colonial racial policy and economic factors interchangeably affected the position of Indian labourers in Malaya, the origins of Britain’s racial preference policy in Malaya are first constructed, followed by how Indian labourers were integrated and subsequently marginalized through and in the capitalist-economic system from 1907. The subsequent sections trace the extent to which they were politically and socioeconomically affected by the colonial politics of racial inequality. The article also discusses how the Japanese occupation period during the Second World War accentuated the position of Indian labourers in postwar Malaya. Following that, the long-term implication of the colonial racial policy on Indian labourers in post-independent Malaya is evaluated.

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英属马来亚的失落种族：重新审视南印度劳工的问题

摘要 本文讨论了从 1907 年到 1950 年代初期，与英国政府的种族政策相关的马来亚南印度劳工的社会经济和政治排斥历史。在这些年里，印度劳工容易受到英国满足马来人和华人政治和经济需要的政策的影响。由于殖民种族政策和经济因素交替影响印度劳工在马来亚的地位，首先构建了英国在马来亚的种族优惠政策的起源，其次是印度劳工如何在 1907 年的资本主义经济体系中被整合并随后被边缘化. 随后的部分追溯了他们在政治和社会经济上受到种族不平等殖民政治影响的程度。文章还讨论了二战期间日本占领时期如何加强战后马来亚印度劳工的地位。随后，评估了殖民种族政策对独立后马来亚的印度劳工的长期影响。