British India – Federated Malay States relations
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The British acknowledged Siamese sovereignty over those states, and Siam accepted British ownership of Penang and Province Wellesley (now Seberang Perai) a narrow hinterland opposite the island of Penang, and allowed the East India Company to trade freely in Trengganu and Kelantan. In 1909, the Anglo-Siamese Treaty was signed by the same parties and through it Siam agreed to give up its claim over Kedah, Perlis, Trengganu, and Kelantan, which formally came under British control, while Pattani, a Malay state remained Siamese territory. Sabah and Sarawak, who acquired colonial status in 1946, were administered separately from the Malay states on the peninsula and Singapore as well as from each other. Separated from the Malay Peninsula by some 500 kilometers of the South China Sea, these two vast, under-populated, and resource-rich states were a world away from the political and economic life of Malaya.
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