Securing and Developing the Southwestern Region: The Role of the Cham and Malay Colonies in Vietnam (18th-19th centuries)

Abstract This article traces the history of the Cham and Malay military colonies in the southwestern provinces of Vietnam, from their creation in the eighteenth century to their dismantling during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The colonies were meant to protect the Khmero-Vietnamese bo...

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Published in:Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient 2011, Vol.54 (5), p.739-772
Main Author: Weber, Nicolas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Armed Forces
Borders
Cambodia
Chams
Colonialism
Colonies
Economic Development
Eighteenth Century
Emperors
Forced migration
Gazetteers
Malays
Malaysia
Nineteenth Century
Power
Power Structure
Prefectures
Princesses
Refugees
Rice
Social structure
Soldiers
Southeast Asia
southwestern Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnamese colonization
Villages
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Summary:Abstract This article traces the history of the Cham and Malay military colonies in the southwestern provinces of Vietnam, from their creation in the eighteenth century to their dismantling during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The colonies were meant to protect the Khmero-Vietnamese border and secure Vietnamese positions in the southwestern regions (formerly part of Cambodia), as well as in eastern Cambodia. The study of the Chams and Malays in southern Vietnam sheds new light on the dynamics of power, the struggles for supremacy, and inter-ethnic associations during the process of state-building in Southeast Asia.
ISSN:0022-4995
1568-5209
0022-4995
DOI:10.1163/156852011X614037