Preface
Acknowledgements
Biographic Notes
Introduction

1. The Padri War and Raja Bilah’s Migration to the Peninsula
2. Raja Asal and Raja Bilah in Perak
3. Papan Mines
4. Raja Bilah, Collector of Tin Duties
5. Expedition to Slim & Bernam
6. ‘Mines are in Full Swing’
7. Raja Bilah, The Penghulu of Papan
8. Resistance to Corvee Labour in Lambor
9. Tok Stia Raja and the Early Development of Batu Gajah
10. The Papan Mosque and Islamic Administration
11. The Identity of the ‘Malay Miners’ of Kinta
12. Forest Conversation Destroys the Relau Semut Industry
13. The 1887 Papan Riots
14. Raja Bilah in Debt
15. Imam Prang Ja Barumun, a ‘Maker of Kinta’
16. The Gopeng Contingent
17. Kinta Through the Eyes of Abu Bakar
18. The Mandailing Cultivators
19. Raja Mahmud of Sengat
20. Raja Ya’qub as a Young Man
21. The Rumah Besar and Shophouses in Papan
22. Letters to Raja Bilah
23. The Pengulu’s Court
24. Raja Bilah goes on Hajj
25. Raja Bilah’s Will

Appendix I-III
Notes
List of Illustrations
Bibliographiy
Index