Ringing the bells: Christianity and the Kadazan-Dusun identity under the rule of the alliance government in Sabah, East Malaysia (1967-1976)

This thesis charts the development of the ethnic identity of the Kadazan-Dusun community, indigenous to Sabah, East Malaysia, from the years 1967 to 1976. This period was one in which Sabah was under the tenure of Chief Minister Mustapha Harun, who led the United Sabah Nationalist Organisation and the coalition it was part of, the Sabah Alliance. Under this government, Kadazan-Dusuns in Sabah were subject to state-backed attempted assimilation to a larger Malay-Muslim identity. These processes of attempted assimilation included the imposition of the Malay language and Islam in Sabah, parallel... Mehr ...