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Brunei: Traditions of Monarchic History and Culture

This book is an annotated edition of the 1954 Report compiled by a former Attorney General, late Professor R. H. Hickling who was sent to Brunei to report of the existing political culture, institutions and laws of Brunei Darussalam so that the British Colonial Office can be well informed before the drafting of a new Constitution.

The Making of Brunei ' s 1959 Constitution

Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia: An important collection of essays exploring the founding of constitutions in Southeast Asian states, featuring contributions by leading scholars., 2019

A detailed analysis of the origins and making of the Brunei Constitution of 1959

Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam

Origins, history and social structures in Brunei Darussalam, 2021

This wide-ranging book re-evaluates in detail the early history and historiography of Brunei Darussalam, the origins of the sultanate, its gene-alogical foundations and the structure and administration of Brunei society. Contributors draw on the seminal work of Donald E. Brown whose major monograph on the sultanate was published in 1970 and marked the beginnings of advanced sociological, anthropological and historical research on Brunei. Among the key issues addressed are status systems, titles and social stratification, Chinese sources for the study of Brunei, Malay oral and written histories and traditions, the symbolism, meanings and origins of coronation rituals, previously unknown sources for the study of Brunei history and the processes of incorporation of minority populations into the sultanate. Contributions by leading scholars of Brunei, Borneo and the wider Indonesian-Malay world, both from within Brunei Darussalam and beyond, address some central preoccupations which Brow...

Brunei Darussalam: Origins, early history and social structure

Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam, eds Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce. , 2021

The introductory chapter provides the rationale for the book, to acknowledge, celebrate and evaluate Professor Donald Brown’s pioneering studies on the Brunei sultanate. It is just over 50 years since Professor Brown undertook anthropological research in Brunei (1967–1968) for his Cornell University doctorate, which led to his seminal volume Brunei: The Structure and History of a Bornean Malay Sultanate published by The Brunei Museum as a special monograph in 1970 (see Prologue); it too celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. He also wrote more than 20 related papers on the history and social organisation of Brunei. These have become standard references for our understanding and appreciation of the society, culture and history of the Brunei sultanate. The chapter proposes that in any scholarly historical and social-science-based research on Brunei, and on historically and culturally related territories in Borneo and on Malay states more generally, Brown’s work is frequently cited. Though other studies were undertaken after the publication of Brown’s monograph, without his crucial scholarly contribution we would have had no major points of reference before the declaration of the full independence of Negara Brunei Darussalam from the British Crown on 1 January 1984.

NARRATION OF BRUNEI DURING MID 19 TH CENTURY

The Brunei Times, 2016

This newspaper article described the life in Brunei which was found in this relatively obscure book written in 1848 entitled "Five Years in Chna from 1842 to 1847"