Testament
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Glossary
  1. My Family: At the Dawn of the Twentieth       1  (5)
  Century
  2. Matang in the Folds of History                6  (5)
  3. The Tiger Catcher and Crocodile Slayer        11 (9)
  4. Kampung Boy: Blind Shamans and 'Feeding'      20 (6)
  the Ghosts
  5. Remaking Matang: Bound Feet and Rubber        26 (9)
  Tappers
  6. The Malays of Matang: Steeped in Tradition    35 (6)
  7. Malay School Education (1916-20)              41 (8)
  8. Circumcision Ceremony (1921)                  49 (6)
  9. King Edward VII School, Taiping (1921-28)     55 (7)
10. Outside School: Sheikh Hassan,                 62 (10)
Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Feudalism
11. Leaving the Nest (1928-31)                     72 (11)
12. Agricultural Assistant: Malay Poverty,         83 (13)
Ganja and Speed
13. Marital Bliss (1934): Mariah, My Teen Bride    96 (3)
14. Teaching at Serdang (1933-41)                  99 (13)
15. Stoking the Nationalist Fire                   112(6)
16. Early Politics: Nationalists of My Land,       118(7)
Unite
17. Political Conversations, Clandestine           125(10)
Meetings
18. KMM: The Young Malay Union (1938)              135(10)
19. The First Malay Nationalists                   145(19)
20. Japanese Invasion: Ibrahim Yaakub's Secret     164(18)
Deal
21. The Japanese Reject Independence for Malaya    182(16)
22. Saving Three Malay Police Officers             198(10)
23. Singapore, February 1942: Saving Malay         208(18)
Soldiers and Freeing KMM Members from Prison
24. Saving More Lives: Courageous Fighting         226(18)
Malay Men
25. At KMM House: Allegations and Arrests          244(7)
26. Japanese 'Volunteer' Army (1943): Picked Up    251(8)
Again
27. Farming to Feed Hundreds (1943-45)             259(9)
28. KRIS (July-August 1945): Drafting a            268(19)
Constitution for an Independent Malaya
29. The Japanese Surrender (15 August 1945):       287(7)
Independence Cheated by 48 Hours
30. Arrest and Interrogation (1945): The           294(10)
Informer and the Bed Bugs
31. Batu Gajah Prison (1945-46)                    304(14)
32. Arrested Again (1946)                          318(11)
33. Touring with Dr Burhanuddin (Late 1946):       329(12)
The Malay Nationalist Party
34. PUTERA-AMCJA Conference (1947)                 341(8)
35. Kuala Lumpur (1947-52): Continuing the         349(13)
Political Struggle
36. Hawking Food (1947-52): Ibrahim's Secret       362(9)
Note
37. Contesting the Post of UMNO President (1951)   371(7)
38. Back to Taiping (1952)                         378(9)
39. UMNO Again (Taiping, June 1954):               387(6)
Independence in the Air
40. Rakyat Press (1957): Print Capitalism          393(6)
41. Postscript: Why I Penned These Memoirs         399(4)
Appendix 1: Signed Statement by Haji Ahmad bin     403(1)
Haji Mohammad Amin
Appendix 2: English Translation of Signed          404(1)
Letter by Raja Dato' Sri Ahmed Hisham bin Raja
Abdul Malik
Appendix 3: English Translation Signed             405(1)
Statement by Jalaluddin Abu Bakar; Fanner CID
Office, Malaya
Afterward � Cries of a Tormented Soul by Cheah     406(4)
Boon Kheng
Afterward by William R. Roff                       410(7)
Index                                              417