Malayan Civil Service

E1009196

colonial civil service government agency

The Malayan Civil Service was the British colonial administrative service responsible for governing British Malaya and managing its civil affairs.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Malayan Civil Service canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial civil service ⓘ government agency ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Federated Malay States NERFINISHED ⓘ Straits Settlements NERFINISHED ⓘ Unfederated Malay States NERFINISHED ⓘ
controlledBy	Colonial Office (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	British Malaya NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissolvedFollowing	formation of Malaysia in 1963 ⓘ independence of the Federation of Malaya in 1957 ⓘ
employer	British colonial administrators in Malaya ⓘ European officers ⓘ locally recruited officers ⓘ
fieldOfWork	colonial governance ⓘ public administration ⓘ
hasPart	district offices ⓘ residency offices ⓘ secretariat in the colonial capital ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Kuala Lumpur NERFINISHED ⓘ Singapore NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
modelledAfter	British Home Civil Service NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian Civil Service NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	influence on post-independence administrative structures in Malaysia ⓘ role in consolidating British rule in Malaya ⓘ training of early Malayan and Malaysian administrators ⓘ
operatedBy	British colonial government NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	British Empire ⓘ
primaryFunction	civil governance ⓘ colonial administration ⓘ implementation of British colonial policy ⓘ
replacedBy	Malayan Civil Service (Federation of Malaya) after independence NERFINISHED ⓘ Malaysian Civil Service NERFINISHED ⓘ
responsibleFor	district administration ⓘ implementation of colonial legislation ⓘ land administration ⓘ law and order administration ⓘ local government supervision ⓘ public works administration ⓘ revenue collection ⓘ
selectionMethod	competitive examination ⓘ nomination and interview ⓘ
subordinateTo	Governor of the Straits Settlements ⓘ High Commissioner for Malaya NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	first half of the 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Malayan Civil Service
Description of subject: The Malayan Civil Service was the British colonial administrative service responsible for governing British Malaya and managing its civil affairs.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cecil Clementi → memberOf → Malayan Civil Service ⓘ