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Pre-colonial SEAE had many urban communities - autonomous societies, centers of government and officials, of religious and intellectual activity, and of commerce -inhabited by a population detached from the land; townsmen rather than countrymen
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Reading: Channels of Change Pre-colonial SEAE had many urban communities - autonomous societies, centers of government and officials, of religious and intellectual activity, and of commerce -inhabited by a population detached from the land; townsmen rather than countrymen. Malacca of the 15h century was a center of a great Malay commercial empire. The wide paved streets of the town's business section, lined with tiled or thatched wooden dwellings and warehouses and thronged with residents and traders from all over Asia, sat across the narrow canal-like river from the fortified precinct that overlooked and commanded it, and within which were the palace of the Malay sultan, the court and its environs, and the houses of the Malay nobility and retinue. Bangkok, which like its predecessor, Ayudhya, was laid out in concentric circles. The innermost circle was dominated by the palaces of the king and later the massive buildings that served as headquarters of the...
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