British Empire in Asia

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They founded Singapore

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Malaysian here. All I could say is
>based Stamford Raffles and the Brookes
>did a better job developing the land than the dutch, french and portuguese colonies nearby
>tried to cuck us out like the Raj but decided not to last minute
>actually btfo'd the commies out

>>2793165
My dad used to live in Malaysia, do you know if there's still a military base called Terendak? It should be near Melaka

>>2793254
Yes, it's still being used

>>2793035
They captured Hong Kong during the first Opium War. They're quite interesting to read about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

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>>2793035
Wrote this a while ago, so I'll just copy and paste it. It's about the great game, specifically the training of Indian spies/explorers by the British when missions got to dangerous for Europeans:

So the British-Indian Government faced the problem of getting surveys of these dangerous areas in Afghanistan, Tibet, and some parts of Central Asia. This Captain named George Montgomery(If you've read Kim, Montgomery is the inspiration for Colonel Creighton) comes along. He has the brilliant idea of using natives to penetrate these areas. Now it was dangerous for anyone to be found making maps/surveys of these areas, regardless of race. It was just thought that Indians had a better chance of staying hidden since they were more common in these areas.

Now it was time to figure out where these surveyors would come from. It was decided to use people from this clan of Hindus called the Rawats who lived near Tibet. They were a mix of North Indian Rajputs and Tibetans. Rawats had a good understanding of Tibet because an ancestor of theirs helped drive the Chinese out of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasavorar holy places to Buddhists and Hindus alike. They were given more free reign near the usually closed off Tibetan border. They also looked and spoke Tibetan, which would make matters a bit easier for them.

So two people were chosen, Nain and Mani Singh Rawat(they were cousins). They were taken to Dehra Dun, the headquarters of the Survey Of India(A British-Indian Government project that made maps and surveys of the Indian Sub-Continent). They went through 2 years of vigorous training. Some things were easier than others, reading sextants, compasses, and thermometers. Others were more complicated. To determine altitude they boiled water(The lower the boiling temperature, the higher the altitude). They were also trained in having a constant stride length, even when going up steep hills. Nain's was measured to be 31 inches, which meant approximately 2000 steps per mile.

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>>2795025
Nain and Mani were put in the disguise of a Buddhist Monk, not an uncommon site in the mountains of Tibet. This gave them a lot of places to store the heavy measuring equipment they needed to hide. One example is the rosary, which was used by the Pundits as a way to measure the distance they had traveled. The Buddhist rosary holds a total of 108 beads on it. Montgomery decided to cut off 8. This would leave an even 100 beads, and the difference in beads was small enough so as to not attract suspicion. Every hundreth pace, the Pundit would slip a smaller bead. Every tenth bead was slightly larger than the rest. These larger beads represented 1000 paces, or roughly half a mile. Since every Pundit had a constant stride length there would be little variation.

The staff of the first Pundits' disguise held thermometers. The prayer wheels held compasses as well as coded notes rather than the usual prayers. A strongbox held their sextants. There were also various hidden pockets in their clothing to hide other objects. The later Pundits would branch out more in their disguises. They would become traders or Muslim pilgrims. They were also heavily trained in the art of lying and cover stories, for any slip of the tongue could mean death. Many would travel for years before returning. Some would never return.

Nain and Mani failed on their first attempt to Tibet. Though Mani would fail on their second attempt, Nain would succeed in reaching Lhasa, being the first person to record it on British Maps. He told accounts of the various crops, and trade routes of Tibet. In total, he traveled 1200 miles. He would be the first person of Asiatic descent to be awarded the gold medal by the Royal Geographic Society.

There's a few other cool stories about the Pundits, but much of it is hidden due to the nature of their job. I'll quote Kim here to get the point across: "We of the Game are beyond protection. If we die, we die. Our names are blotted from the book. That is all."

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>>2793074
>*teleports behind you*
>pssh...nothing personnel, kid

>>2795025
>>2795044
this isn't ordinary perfidy, this is advanced Anglo perfidy, and they hoodwinked others into doing their dirty work as usual

>>2795055
>read about the battle
>never actually looked at a map of it

Holy shit the British couldn't even stop an under manned, equipped infantry force from crossing a river AFTER they trekked through the jungles and lacked heavy equipment. Holy shit Britain shouldn't even be on the rankings, Canada and fucking Australia were more relevant and useful

>>2795184
If you'd actually looked up the battle you would've known it was an Australian contingent that let the defence down by fleeing.

>>2795055
wtf
whose fault was this?

Bradford had it coming, fucking tea bag fucked up teeth double decker bus-nigger got BTFO by the strength of the Afghan

>>2793035
Read about the Great Game, it was a rivalry in the 1890's between Britain and Russia over imperialist ambitions in Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia and gives insight as to why places like Iran and Afghanistan were spared from colonialism.

British Malaya, British Singapore, British Raj, British Hong Kong are all worth reading about in regards to British Empire in Asia.
If you're interested further you should also look into stuff like French Indochina, Dutch East Indies and Japanese Korea for Asian colonialism.