Brunei and the British in the Nineteenth Century

Brunei and the British in the Nineteenth Century relates the remarkable tale of the encounter between the Sultanate of Brunei, which in 1800 possessed nominal hegemony over most of northern Borneo, and Western colonialists, particularly the British. The study focuses on two notable protagonists, Pengiran Indera Mahkota (c. 1790s–1858), a high-born Bruneian courtier, and James Brooke (1803-1868), a former English soldier and gentleman-adventurer. Pengiran Indera Mahkota was governor (rajah) of Sa