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The Raj was founded by James Brooke, an English former soldier and adventurer who arrived at the banks of the Sarawak River and berthed his schooner there in 1839. [6] After having served in the First Anglo-Burmese War , where he was severely wounded in battle, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Brooke returned to England in 1825 to recover from his injury.
Of British origin, the first ruler, James Brooke was granted the province of Kuching – which was known as Sarawak Asal (Original Sarawak) – by the Sultanate of Brunei for helping fight piracy and insurgency among the indigenous peoples in 1841 and received independent kingdom status.
Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak KCB (29 April 1803 [4] – 11 June 1868), [5] was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868. Brooke was born and raised in India during the rule of the British East India Company.
He entered the service of his uncle James, the first Rajah of Sarawak, in 1852, took his name, and began as Resident at the Lundu station in the Raj of Sarawak. In the 1857 rebellion against the White Rajah, Charles Brooke helped his uncle put down the rebellion led by Liu Shan Bang with his force composed of Ibans and local Bidayuh tribes.
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Silsilah Raja-raja Brunei mentioned the state of Samarahan which is sometimes known as Sadong. The place name Samadong recorded in the Java manuscript Nagarakretagama possibly refer to the state of Sadong. In the 1850s, James Brooke and Spenser St. John found a female doll and a stone bull in this area which were used in Hinduism worship.
The Sultanate of Sarawak (Malay: كسلطانن ملايو سراوق دارالهنا , romanized: Kesultanan Sarawak) was a Malay kingdom, located in present-day Kuching Division, Sarawak. The kingdom was founded in 1599, [ 1 ] after the conquest of the preceding Santubong Kingdom and the later Sultanate of Brunei .
The origins of Ali are disputed. Sarawak Malays asserted that he had descended from the Minangkabau Kingdom, which once existed in Sumatra, Indonesia. [5] A prince of the Royal House of Minangkabau, Datu Undi (also called Raja Jarom) [6] moved to Borneo with his people and settled near the Sarawak River. [7]