I love this TL I can only hope though that this TL's Sarawak doesn't go the same way as OTL's
I love this TL I can only hope though that this TL's Sarawak doesn't go the same way as OTL's
Sikhs acting as extra muscle to help the Brookes secure Sarawak from outside invaders? Sweet idea, not to mention being wrapped up in a good update overall . Although, I'm not sure I'm so cozy with the Hakka immigration going on (IIRC they had a big hand in the Malayan Emergency IOTL, although I might be off on that).
Sikhs acting as extra muscle to help the Brookes secure Sarawak from outside invaders? Sweet idea, not to mention being wrapped up in a good update overall .
Good update.
My guess on the American Civil War: it goes like OTL, probably, but maybe Mark Twain (or, heck, if he's still born, Theodore Roosevelt (1)) visits Sarawak postwar.
(1) Read Male Rising for an...interesting alt-Theodore Roosevelt.
Waiting for more, BTW!!!
Yes the Sikhs have finally arrived , now continue on with the Brooke-wank darn it
Glad the missionaries are about, and on a good moral chain. Catholics too. With the Sikhs moving in we are well on our way to that highly diverse Sarawak.
Sikhs acting as extra muscle to help the Brookes secure Sarawak from outside invaders? Sweet idea, not to mention being wrapped up in a good update overall .
So the Dutch did not try and grab the plains firing the Troubles?
Although, I'm not sure I'm so cozy with the Hakka immigration going on (IIRC they had a big hand in the Malayan Emergency IOTL, although I might be off on that).
This right here the Chinese have proven themselves to be of questionable loyalty to the kingdom the fact that even more of them are coming in is going to be uncomfortable for many people no doubt in Sarawak.
Ah, the Borneo Company. I love those odd little late-imperial Corporate Colonialists; such a strange mix of the modern and the reactionary.
Why not recruit Sikhs? Brooke was a British officer at heart, after all, and he'd served in India, so the Indian "martial races" would be a natural place to look for troops.
It'll be interesting to see what the Sikh soldiers and their children do at the end of their terms - given generational patterns in other countries where British colonizers imported Indians, they may end up owning many of the small businesses in the capital.
Why not recruit Sikhs? Brooke was a British officer at heart, after all, and he'd served in India, so the Indian "martial races" would be a natural place to look for troops.
It'll be interesting to see what the Sikh soldiers and their children do at the end of their terms - given generational patterns in other countries where British colonizers imported Indians, they may end up owning many of the small businesses in the capital.
It's not that it doesn't make sense, but rather it's something I didn't see coming at this time. I also wouldn't see any problem with, say, the Ghurkas filling out such a role as well, but Sikhs would do just fine from where I'm sitting. And it's a move I find preferable to just hiring European mercenaries to boot, partly because of the very influence you mention might happen as a result of long-term Sikh presence in Sarawak (truly setting the place up as a melting pot nation).
Interested here to see how the headline idea works out.
A sidebar which is probably more trouble than it's worth. It's surprising how few books etc OTL westerners set in Borneo. Are there any more TTL?
Still following eagerly.
I don't think you can do anything to old updates that are locked, sadly.Okay then! Headline updates are a go! (though IMO we won't see the first of them until the mid-1860's comes knocking around).
By the way, does anyone know how to change a thread update that's already locked? I've made a serious mistake in one of my older updates; it's supposed to say "...When Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II died in 1853, his son-in-law inherited a crumbling empire."