Neil Khor discusses his latest book, “The Towns of Malaya: An Illustrated History of the Peninsula up to 1957.” Co-authored with Mariana Isa and Maganjeet Kaur, Towns of Malaya draws on images and maps from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries to provide an insight into urban development and life on the peninsula before Independence.

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