Friday 23 January 2009

Immigrants In Colonial Malaya and Borneo: a pictorial account (7)

Transportation in Colonial Malaya

Modern transportation in the country owed its beginning to Indian labourers brought in to build railways and later roads. In the late 19th century railway lines were laid and managed almost exclusively by Tamils from Sri Lanka and southern India.

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