by Harper, Tim
in Dutch empire, 169–70
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril, 296, 297, 298
Radcliffe Commission, 290, 292, 296, 300, 404
radiation, 140
Raffles, Thomas Stamford, 169
Raffles College, 199, 434, 505
Raffles Hotel, 6, 111, 203, 471
Raghavan, N., 87
Rajagopalachari, C., 299
rallies, 69, 84, 117, 124–5, 128, 147, 166, 212, 234, 243–4, 283, 312
Ralston, Colonel John, 70–71
Rance, Major-General Sir Hubert, xxiv, 70, 236, 253–4, 257–60, 262, 265, 269, 306, 310, 311, 313–20, 323
Rangoon, 4, 9, 60, 61–2, 69, 223, 288, 314, 374, 389, 465–6
Rangoon Liberator, 61–2, 72
rape, 104, 112, 113, 128, 301, 417, 481
Rashid Maidin, 35, 196, 343, 352, 353–4, 359, 418, 419, 430, 534
Rauf, M. A., 467
Raychaudhuri, Tapan, 299
Rees-Williams, David, 216
refugees, 103, 193, 194, 248, 249, 251, 312
from Burma, 84–5, 224
from Surabaya, 181
partition, 292–3, 295, 299–301, 404, 461, 546, 547
Remedios, Victor, 451 Reynolds News, 26–8, 70, 149, 190
rice, 11–12, 81, 104, 254, 300, 358, 458, 465–6, 467–8
Ritchie, General Sir Neil, 437
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 141
Rosie, George, 141–2, 151
Rothermere, Lord, 396
Royal Air Force, 26, 180, 218–20, 222, 225, 251, 302, 331, 472, 522
Royal Australian Air Force, 522
Royal Dutch Shell, 159
Royal Indian Navy, 222
Royal Marines, 49, 456, 522
Royal Selangor Club, 52
Royal Singapore Golf Club, 59
rubber, 9, 10–11, 102, 103, 107–8, 124, 142, 333–40, 342, 409, 420, 421–4, 447, 528
rubber planters, 334, 336, 339, 340, 398, 422, 426, 437, 438, 495
murder of, 398, 426, 427–8, 440,
Rudra, Ajit, 90
rumour, 4, 5, 22, 29–30, 83, 329–30, 412, 417
Rust en Orde (‘Tranquillity and Order’), 159, 160, 170
Saberkas, 46
Sabilillah (‘Path of God’) movement, 44, 47
Said Zahari, 534, 535
Saigon, 140, 141, 142, 143, 147–9, 153, 154, 155–6, 157–8, 539
Samad Ismail, A., 506, 508, 510
Samy, A. M., 337–8
Saravanamuttu, M., 50
Sarjono, 191
Satoru Onishi, 126
Savarka, V. D., 78–9
Savory, General Sir Reginald, 290, 291
Saw, U, xxiv, 17, 71, 73, 227, 233, 237, 238, 257–9, 302, 315, 316–20, 388
schools, 118–19, 411, 434, 503–4, 506, 508, 531
Scott, Sir Robert, 532
Seagrave, Gordon S., 63
Seagrim, Major, 74, 75, 233
Sehgal, Captain P. K., 88, 89
Seinda, U, 312
Selangor, 103, 122, 132–3, 204, 339, 445–6
Sultan of, 132–3, 482, 525
Semai, 493–4, 495
Semarang, 172, 173, 181
Sen, Samar, 301
Senoi, 491–2
Shamsiah Fakeh, xxiv, 195, 354, 359, 419, 433
Shans, 74, 75, 306, 309, 312, 389, 517
Sharkey, Lawrence, 415
Sharma, P. V., 507, 508
Shaw Brothers, 511
Shen Zijiu, 198
Sher Khan, 223
Shigeu Fukudome, Vice Admiral, 50
Shigeyuki Hashimoto, 273
Shikimachi, Gentaro¯, 53
Shinozaki Mamoru, 25, 93, 272, 545
Shwedagon pagoda, 69, 223, 374
Siddiq, Lieutenant-Colonel Mahomed, 291
Siew Lau, 514
Sikhs, 290, 291, 330
Sillitoe, Alan, 472
Sim, Major, 246
Sime Road internment camp, 54–5, 199, 482–3
Simon Commission, 76, 96 Sin Chew Jit Poh, 120
Singapore, 4, 6–7, 9–10, 41–2, 50, 57–9, 89, 99, 101–3, 110–11, 114, 117, 138–9, 193–4, 205–7, 225–6, 269–70, 273–4, 280–83, 409–11, 425, 504, 509–11, 533–4, 545–6
1948 elections, 409–10
amusement parks, 5, 116, 123, 193–4, 206, 523
and Federation of Malaya, 362–3, 368–9, 409
and Malayan Union, 130–31
independence, 548, 550–51
under Japanese rule, 9–10, 24–5, 34, 93
Singapore Cricket Club, 111, 274
Singapore Overseas Chinese Volunteer Army, 30
Singapore Progressive Party, 409–10
Singh, Balwant, 62–3, 322, 373, 402, 468–9
Singh, Sardar Baldev, 284
Sjahrir, Sutan, xxiv, 161, 164, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 201, 324–5, 351, 353
Sjarifuddin, Amir, 178, 186
Slim, Field Marshal Sir William, xxiv, 26, 38, 60, 64, 152–3, 158, 521, 524, 540–41
Sloane, Lieutenant-Colonel John, 521
Smith Dun, Colonel, xxiv, 380–81, 389, 393, 394, 396, 398
Snow, Edgar, 375–6
social welfare, 280–81
Soe, Thakin, xxiv, 74, 227, 238–9, 264, 316, 318, 378
Soong Kwong, 122, 124–5, 203, 204–5, 206, 430
South East Asia Command (SEAC), 12, 27–8, 32, 36, 44, 46, 57–8, 110–11, 137, 139–40, 187, 256, 273–4, 387
and Indonesia, 159, 168, 172, 186, 187, 193
Southeast Asia, 10–11, 408–9
concept of, 12, 279, 280
Soviet Union, 21, 379, 405, 436, 462, 466, 536, 547
Special Operations Executive, 4, 6, 30–31, 32, 167, 276, 552
Speldewinde, D., 423–4
Stafford, Superintendent Bill, 432
Steel Brothers, 377, 380
Stevenson, Adlai, 529, 539
Stevenson, Henry Noel Cochrane, xxiv, 306, 393–4
Stilwell, General Joseph, 544
Stokes, Eric, 87–8, 221
Stopford, Montagu, 71
Straits Chinese, 93, 122, 200, 327, 332, 364, 487
Straits Times, 450
Suara Rakyat (‘The Voice of the People’), 135
Sufism, 43–4
Suhrawardy, H. S., xxv, 244, 246, 247, 249, 252, 294, 299
suicide, 2, 6, 61, 92, 217, 472
Sukarno, xxv, 161, 164–5, 166, 169, 172–3, 174, 177–8, 179, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 192, 195, 417
Sulawesi, 160
Sumatra, 7, 135, 159–60, 161, 173, 181, 182, 183, 188
Sungei Siput, 128, 420, 422–4, 427, 430, 447, 448, 473
Surabaya, 168, 172, 175–81, 183, 185, 191, 230–31, 417
British apology, 181
Sutumo, see Bung Tomo Suzuki, 232
Swettenham, Sir Frank, 215
Syed Naguib al-Attas, 43
Syed Sheikh al-Hadi, 196
Sylhet, 297
Syonan: My Story, 545
Tai Kwee Sheng, 411
Taiping, 128, 475, 483
Taiwan, 21–2
Tajuddin, Ahmed, 358
Tale of Two Cities, A, 441
Tamils, 9, 82, 87, 331, 334, 335–6, 337, 495
Tamluk, 83
Tan Cheng Lock, xxv, 364–5, 368, 369, 408, 429, 449, 486, 487, 488–9, 490, 500–501, 502–3, 507, 524, 528, 529, 534
Tan Chin Tuan, 276
Tan Kah Kee, xxv, 24, 120–21, 193, 198, 226, 368, 410, 411, 412, 485, 506, 520
Tan Kan, 417
Tan Malaka, xxv, 166–7, 181, 187, 188, 217, 419, 550
Tan Moi, 454
Tan Siew Sin, xxv, 408, 429, 486
Tan Tok Seng hospital, 110
Tan, C. C., 409
Tantabin, 234–5, 236, 265
Tatsuo Moroshoshi, 272
Tebagha movement, 294–5
Telengana, 384–5, 397, 463, 457
Temiar, 491, 492–3
Templer, Sir Gerald Walter Robert, xxv, 442, 5
24–6, 529, 539
Tenasserim, 4, 60, 395
Terauchi, Field Marshal Count, 6, 50, 57, 140, 144, 146, 149, 157, 165, 172
Tewari, Major K. K., 403
Thailand, 8, 54, 87, 140, 192, 345–6, 417, 418, 515, 553
Than Tun, xxv, 64, 238–9, 258, 264, 316, 322, 378–9, 385, 405, 469
Thanbyuzayat, 269
Thant, U, 316
Thein Pe Myint, xxv, 74, 263–4, 375, 379
Thimayya, Brigadier, 139
Thio Chan Bee, 499–500
Thivy, John, 330, 331
Thomas, Leslie, 471, 472
Thompson, Jim, 192
Thompson, Robert, 526, 527
Thuraisingham, E. E. C., 500
Time for a Tiger, 438
tin mining, 10–11, 102, 420, 421, 439
Tin Tut, xxvi, 233, 261–2, 266–7, 302, 304, 306, 309, 313, 320, 399–400, 459
Tippera, 250–51
Titi resettlement town, 489–90, 491
Tojo, Hideki, 57, 86
towkays, 107, 110, 120–21, 368–70, 408, 410–12, 486–7, 528
trade unions, 123–4, 204–6, 207, 239, 255, 281–3, 331–2, 336–7, 339–42, 416, 424–5, 435, 475, 495, 496
Tran Trong Kim, 143
Tran Van Giau, 144, 192
Tremlett, Innes, 32
Trengganu, 133, 358
Sultan of, 133
triads, 45, 94, 414–15, 491
Truman, Harry S., 141, 499
Tseng Pi Chi, 221
Tu Lung Shan, 35–6, 196
Tulloch, Colonel J. C. ‘Pop’, 394–7, 400, 458
Tun Hla Oung, 391
Tun Oke, 229–30
Tung Lai Chong, 431–2
Tunku Abdul Rahman, xxvi, 46–7, 455, 529–30, 531, 532–3, 534–5
Tuppen, Alan, 451
Tyson, John, 296, 300
Union of Democratic Control, 70
United Malays National Organization (UMNO), 213–14, 216, 217, 274, 277–8, 331, 332, 352, 360–61, 362, 363, 368, 407, 434, 487, 498, 500, 502, 529–32,
United Nations, 15, 83, 127, 141, 185, 190, 258
United States, 12, 139–40
and Asian communism, 399, 405, 457, 458, 519, 538–9, 549
and empire in Asia, 141, 145, 457, 462, 548–9
University of Malaya, 504–6, 507, 549
Usman Awang, 507, 510
Ustaz Abdul Rab Tamini, 419, 434
Ustaz Abu Bakar, 359–60, 418, 434
Utusan Melayu, 190, 332, 506, 510, 534
van den Boegarde, Derek (Dirk Bogarde), 138–9, 168, 186–7
van der Plas, Charles, 169, 170, 191
van der Post, Laurens, 174
van Mook, Dr Hubertus J., 170, 174
van Oyen, General, 170
venereal disease, 3, 104, 112, 154, 221, 389
Vichy regime, 142–3, 145
victory celebrations, 60, 61, 138
Viet Minh, 141, 143, 146, 147–52, 155, 156, 158, 239, 345–6, 443, 462, 536, 538
Vietnam, 140–58, 443, 536, 538–9
see also Indo-China
Vietnam War, 141, 149, 158, 443, 527, 539
Vivian, Captain, 318
Wade, General Ashton, 437
Wah Kei brotherhood, 414, 415
Wahi Anuar, 419
Walker, Arthur, 427
Wallich, Aubrey, 426
Wang Gungwu, 506
Wavell, Field-Marshall Archibald, xxvi, 15, 65, 79, 90, 91, 97, 98, 156, 171, 222–3, 226, 240, 242, 243, 251–2, 256, 261, 284–5, 302
Wedemeyer, General, 151
Westerling, Raymond, 182–3
Wheen, Francis, 27
Wilhelmina, Queen, 167
Willan, H. C., 131–2
Williams, Frank, 453–4
Williams, J. B., 427, 441
Williams-Hunt, Peter, 494–5