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This article explores the concept of Charisma in relation to the role of the independence movement leader in Malaya Tunku Abdul Rahman and shows how this concept can help explain his leadership of the nationalist movement.
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The article shows the relevance of the concept of Charisma to explain the leadership of an independence movement leader in a British colonial territory in the 1950s.
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The article demonstrates the application and relevance of the concept of Charisma to a leader of a nationalist movement, Tunku abdul Rahman, in the colonial period.
Dr Joseph M. Fernando
University of Malaya
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harisma, and the Nationalist Movement in
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alaya, 1952–1957, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, December 2011, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9469.2011.01133.x.
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