Slim Barracks Rise
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What's In The Name? How The Streets And Villages In Singapore Got Their Names
Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 name groups were known in Singapore. Based on digitised historical newspapers, dated back to 1830, municipal records and Malay dictionaries, the origins, meanings and date of naming for many place names are uncovered. As part of Singapore history, place names known since 1936 are recorded in this book.Although place names are fairly static in nature, there have been more than 100 name changes. The naming trends transitioned from English to Malay and then back to English names. Discover that Toa Payoh was not named after a big swamp, Anderson Road was named before John Anderson, a former Governor, took up his job and many more new findings in this exciting book.This book is a complete listing of all place names since 1936, together with the most comprehensive annotations to date — a first in Singapore. It is also the only book of its kind that analyses naming trends. Information on the origins or date of naming was based on primary sources such as old maps, minutes of municipal meetings, Chinese books and digitised newspapers.
新加坡地名探索
新加坡地名命名理据丰富多样，不仅与本地多元种族、多元文化的社会结构相关，也与它的历史、政治、经济、文化等各方面的状况密切相关。 随着新加坡独立后迅速崛起，各类基本建设和工业、商业飞速发展，新的制造区、商贸区、海港区、居住区不断涌现和拓展，有些旧地名消失，新的地名产生了，名目繁多。本书分两部分进行了研究。 上部：新加坡地名演变研究。是对新加坡地名的形成；新加坡地名的基本结构；华文地名的特点；新加坡地名的规范化等的深入研究。 下部：新加坡地名由来研究（地名录与地名注）。作者对新加坡开埠以来，几千处街道、社区、马路名称之由来和变化进行深入的考索。总结其命名的特点、语词的渊源，分析它们来自不同种族、国家，反映各地区经济状况，历史文化特征，分辩正式称谓、民间俗称，条分缕析地对各类地名来龙去脉作了相当详细的考辩。 从本书对新加坡地名所作的详尽分析，可以一窥新加坡的历史文化风貌和社会图景。 作者通过阅读大量的历史文献以及旧报章，从中挖掘出很多第一手资料，使本书的内容更丰富与更翔实。本书对于新加坡地名历史演变趋势的分析水平很高，其范围之广、研究之深，是前所未有的。 ——黄海教授 新加坡南洋理工大学商学院前院长 新加坡前国会议员 此书既具有帮助人们认识新加坡地理面貌的实用价值，又保存了丰富的历史文化内涵，可以寻忆前辈足迹，起到观古鉴今、继往开来的积极作用。 ——谭家健客座教授 中国社会科学院文学研究所研究员 新加坡国立大学中文系前客座教授
Gurkha Odyssey
A British general's memoir of serving with these famed Nepalese warriors: "An inspiring journey, delightfully related." — Times Literary Supplement It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter the martial spirit of their indomitable foe—the Gurkha hill men from that mountainous independent land. Impressed by their fighting qualities and with the end of hostilities in sight, the Company begins to recruit them into their own ranks. Since then these lighthearted and gallant soldiers have successfully campaigned wherever the British Army has served—from the North West Frontier of India through two World Wars to the contemporary battlefields of the Falklands and Afghanistan's Helmand Province, with well over one hundred battle honors to their name and at a cost of 20,000 casualties. Here, Peter Duffell separates fact and myth and recounts something of the history, character, and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers—seen through the prism of his service and campaigning as a regular officer in the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, as the Brigade of Gurkhas Major General and as Regimental Colonel of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.