<Notes>Malaysian Indians and Their Mass Media

Abstract

Making up approximately eleven per cent of Malaysia's multiethnic population is an Indian community that made massive migrations to the Southeast Asian peninsula during the latter nineteenth century. They came looking for work and found it as indentured laborers on the rubber estates. They were, for the most part, Tamil speaking, although there were pockets using Punjabi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kanarese. In their new land, they were exploited by the British colonialists; their rebellion against their masters is the commencement of the history of Malaysian Indian mass media.