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The White Rajahs were a hereditary monarchy of the Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak as a sovereign state, located on the north west coast of the island of Borneo in Maritime Southeast Asia, from 1841 to 1946. Of British origin, the first ruler, James Brooke was granted the province of Kuching – which was known as ...
Malaysia. The Raj of Sarawak, Kingdom of Sarawak or State of Sarawak, was an independent state founded in 1841 in northwestern Borneo and was in a treaty of protection with the United Kingdom from 1888. It was formed from a series of land concessions acquired by the Englishman James Brooke from the Sultan of Brunei.
Aug 31, 2023 · Amongst the most remarkable of these is the story of the White Rajahs of Sarawak. The tale begins in the mid-19 th century, in the jungles of Southeast Asia. James Brooke, an Anglo-Indian soldier and adventurer, had set sail for Borneo in 1838 aboard a 142-ton schooner, the Royalist. Brooke had previously seen combat in the First Anglo-Burmese ...
Sep 2, 2024 · Heritage Snippets of Sarawak. By J. H. Walker. ALTHOUGH newspaper references to the ‘White Rajah’ of Sarawak can be found as early as 1850, throughout the nineteenth century the first two Rajahs of Sarawak, James and Charles, were more commonly referred to simply as ‘Rajah Brooke’, a tradition that was popularised, if not initiated, by ...
Feb 3, 2011 · Feb 3, 2011. -. History. -. 342 pages. The Sultan of Brunei gave the title of Rajah and sovereignty of Sarawak, a province of Borneo, to James Brooke in 1841 as a reward for helping to peacefully resolve an uprising in the region. Brooke established his reign over the area, and two further Brooke descendants ruled Sarawak as a British ...
Brooke Raj, (1841–1946), dynasty of British rajas that ruled Sarawak (now a state in Malaysia) on the island of Borneo for a century. Sir James Brooke (b. April 29, 1803, Secrore, near Benares, India—d. June 11, 1868, Burrator, Devon, Eng.), first visited the Eastern Archipelago on an unsuccessful.
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The Sultan of Brunei gave the title of Rajah and sovereignty of Sarawak, a province of Borneo, to James Brooke in 1841 as a reward for helping to peacefully resolve an uprising in the region. Brooke established his reign over the area, and two further Brooke descendants ruled Sarawak as a British protectorate for the next hundred years until Japanese occupation during World War II followed by ...
