二战前英属马来亚印度劳工的政治生活简析

从20世纪初开始,马来亚印度人的民族主义逐渐兴起,一方面表现在印度人希望获得马来亚的公民权,但更多地体现在印度劳工希望殖民统治者给予他们公平、合理的待遇。然而,印度人温和合理的政治诉求遭到殖民当局的拒绝,因此他们采取了更为激进的罢工。罢工的失败促使印度人争取祖国印度独立自由的民族主义情绪的高涨,进而在日据时期掀起了一场较有声势的独立运动。日据时期的马来亚印度人的独立运动是一场无果而终的民族解放运动,也是一场失败的民族主义运动,但这场独立运动具有一定的正义性。

Brief Analysis of the Politics of Indian Labour in Malaya before the Second World War

Since the beginning of the 20th century,the nationalism of Indians in Malaya was gradually on the rise because of a variety of factors.On the one hand,it showed that the Indians wanted to be granted Malayan citizenship.On the other,Indian labours hoped that the colonial rulers would give them a fair and reasonable treatment to get rid of serious exploitation and oppression.However,the colonial regime refused the mild and reasonable political aspirations of the Indians.Consequently,the Indians took a more ag...