The White Rajahs - Steven Runciman (1960)

The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 is a captivating historical account of the Brooke dynasty, who ruled Sarawak, a region in Borneo, for over a century. The book explores how James Brooke, the first Rajah, was granted sovereignty by the Sultan of Brunei in 1841, and how his descendants expanded Sarawak's territory, suppressed piracy, and established governance systems

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Cambridge University Press. Hardback. 1960