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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.
The White Rajahs of Sarawak: Dynastic Intrigue and the Forgotten Canadian Heir. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. ISBN 1-55054-603-1. Ranee Margaret of Sarawak (2001). My Life in Sarawak. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-582663-9. R.H.W. Reece (1982). The Name of Brooke, the End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford ...
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The Brooke family is an English family that ruled the Raj of Sarawak, from 1841 until 1 July, 1946, when Charles Vyner Brooke, the third and last "White Rajah" ceded Sarawak to the British Empire [1] due to the lack of resources to finance reconstruction after World War II.
Datu Patinggi Abang Ali bin Abang Amir [1] (or commonly known as Datu Patinggi Ali [2]) was a key figure in the Sarawak Malays' resistance against the Brunei Empire, which occurred throughout Pengiran Indera Mahkota and Raja Muda Hashim's reign in the 1830s.
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.
Flag of the Raj of Sarawak from 1870 to 1946. Map of the Raj of Sarawak, 1920s. This article lists the heads of government of the Raj of Sarawak from 1843 to 1946, when the Raj of Sarawak was ceded to the United Kingdom and became the Crown Colony of Sarawak.