#MICTURNS70 Flashbacks

The Malaya Malays had been protected by a so-called pro-Malay policy of the colonial authorities. The British government felt that the Malays should not be pushed into the background in their own country. Since they were the "people of the country", they were granted special privileges. Reserves of suitable land were made to these son of the soil"; rice-growing was mainly confined to them. Special attention was paid to their education. Before World War II, the Malayan Administrative Service was specially created for Malays, and non-Malaya were barred from it.