NATHAN, J. E.

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The Census of British Malaya, 1921. First edition, rare in commerce, of this granular report on the first peninsula-wide census conducted in British Malaya, including dozens of tables and charts. Compared to the Federated Malay States census of 1911, the 1921 survey added new sections on literacy and spoken language proficiency and introduced "complete uniformity for all the states in the concepts and definitions used" (Saw, p. 320).Julius Ernest Nathan was appointed superintendent of the census in September 1920, having spent two decades working for the civil service in south-east Asia.

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