Of the 5 million people who inhabited Malaya and Singapore after the Second World War, Malays comprised 50 percent of the population, Chinese made up 38 percent, and a religiously diverse mix of Indians 11 percent; several smaller groups comprised the remaining 1 percent.[99] In the postwar years, all three communities felt the full weight of Britain’s imperial resurgence as fleets of technocrats, welfare officers, and social science researchers bore down on the peninsula as never before.
