Protector An Analysis Of The Concept And Practice Of Loyalty In Leaderled Relationships Within Malay Society Chandra Muzaffar by Chandra Muzaffar 9789672464150, 9672464150 instant download after payment.

"It is granted that there is political control and the expectation of political obedience where the loyal are rewarded and the disloyal punished. It is granted that criticism is frowned upon even in non-feudal societies.... But that does not mean that the attitude towards political control itself - in fact the whole attitude of leaders towards their followers and followers towards their leaders - is not the product of a certain history, of a certain tradition."
Protector? is a modest attempt at analysing an important dimension of the political culture of Malay society. It was in fact Syed Hussein Alatas, Professor of Malay Studies at the University of Singapore, who first suggested that unquestioning loyalty to a leader in return for protection of the led - which is widely acknowledged as a characteristic of the feudal epoch - could well be a feature of present day-Malay society. In ‘Feudalism in Malaysian society’, Civilisation (Vol. XVIII No. 4 Bruxelles 1968), he noted some of the contemporary manifestations of this feudal continuity.