Chapters Ⅰ．The Beginning of Modern Development 1
Chapters Ⅱ．The Early Straits Settlements 19
Chapters Ⅲ．Tin Mining before 1880 30
Chapters Ⅳ．Early Chinese Immigrant Communities 42
Chapters Ⅴ．Indian Immigration to 1884 57
Chapters Ⅵ．First Attempts to Control Chinese Labour 70
Chapters Ⅶ．Further Development of Tin Mining 79
Chapters Ⅷ．Early Plantation Agriculture in the Malay States 91
Chapters Ⅸ．Indian Immigrant Labour，1884-1904 96
Chapters Ⅹ．Indian Immigration Fund and the supply of Indian Labourers 109
Chapters Ⅺ．Javanese Labourers 127
Chapters Ⅻ．Indian Labourers 1904-1920 132
Chapters ⅩⅢ．Tin Mining to 1920 141
Chapters ⅩⅣ．Chinese Labourers 1900-1920 147
Bibliography 158
Index 161