The Orang Asli, Malays, Chinese, Indians, Ceylonese, Eurasians, and numerous other communities have contributed, in their different ways, to the peninsula’s economic development, cultural diversity, and nation-building.
Understanding this history challenges simplistic and exclusive claims of belonging. While the communities arrived at different times and played different roles, many eventually developed deep roots in the peninsula and came to regard it as their homeland.
The story of Peninsular Malaysia is therefore not one of a...