Author: bin Mohamad, Mahathir.
Title: The Malay Dilemma.
Description: Kuala Lumpur Federal Publications, 1982. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 128 pp. This controversial bestselling book describes how Malays view their own country in which about 50% of the population are immigrants from China and India, and whom have become more prosperous at the expense of the Malays. Originally published in 1970, this book is the best-known treatise in Malaysian politics. It greatly enhanced Mahathir's political career, and he eventually became the longest serving Malaysian prime minister from 1981 and 2003, and again in 2018.

Keywords: society, history, ethnicity, government, middle east, islam, asia, malaysia


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