The Negeri Sembilan confederacy
Malay stockades such as this were built along the rivers of Negeri Sembilan by the rulers to control the river traffic in their territory, particularly the growing trade in tin from the mines in Sungai Ujong.
In 1773, Raja Melewar from Sumatra became the paramount ruler, though with very limited powers, of a number of small districts in the Malay Peninsula occupied by Sumatran immigrants. These settlers were from Minangkabau, whose social system (adat perpatih) was based on matrilineal descent. In the mid-19th century, the confederacy disintegrated and the ensuing disorder led to British intervention in 1874. Thereafter, a slow process of reunification led to the restoration of the Yamtuan as paramount ruler of the confederacy in 1898.
- Information in the full article includes
- The beginning
- The Undang
- British intervention
- Yamtuan Muhammad
- Confederacy government