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Bureaucratic Transition in Malaya
Table 17. Communal Representation in the Senior Bureaucracy,
1957
No. %
1958
1959
1960
1962
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
Expatriate 1,687 61.0
gi
ni
th
an
50 2 2 3 3 3
tiv
1,200 45.0
1,004 36.4
657 24.6
409 14.1
Malay
390 14.1
513 19.4
653 23.6
737 27.6
850 29.3
Chinese
366 13.2
520 19.5
660 23.8
Ta
750. 28.1
987 34.0
Indian
191 7.0
266 10.0
326 11.8
384 14.4
462 15.9
R
Other
127 4.6
166 6.2
120 4-3
143 5.4
194 6.7
Total
2,761
2,665
2,763
2,671
2,902
This table has been derived by the author by tabulating the annual Staff Lists prepared by the Service Division of the Federation Establishment Office for the years indicated. The date is January 1 for each of the years.
Graph 1. The Malayanization of the Senior Bureaucracy
1957
1958
1959
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1960
1962
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Expatriate
Malay
cr
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Chinese
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6 8 ± 8 2232 83 8
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Indian
Other
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It seems that Chinese were well represented in the senior bu- reaucracy even at the time of independence, and since then they have been recruited into the senior services at a considerably
parted from Malaya. The difference between these might vary in individual cases by several months, but this does not seem adequate to explain all dis- crepancies.
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