THE RULING FAMILY OF SELANGOR.
BY
W. E. MAXWELL, C.M.G.
(Extracted from the Selangor Administration Report for 1889.)
3. There exists, in Malay, an interesting historical work
entitled (
language characters) "Tuhfat-el-nafis," written in A. H.
1288, by Raja ALI, of Riouw, which treats of the later history
of those Malay States, the royal houses of which have been
founded or influenced by Bugis chiefs from the island of
Celebes. These include Riouw, Linggi, Johor, Selangor,
Siak, &c.
4. A long table of descent is given, which is mostly fabulous until it approaches modern times. In compiling the latter portion, the author has perhaps consulted Dutch publications.
5. The admixture of Bugis blood in the reigning families of the Malay kingdoms of the Straits of Malacca, seems to have commenced in the early part of the 18th century. It is related in the native chronicle above alluded to that Upu Tanderi Burong, a Bugis Raja in the island of Celebes (the third son of the first Bugis Raja who embraced Muhammadanism), had five sons:—
- (1) Daing Peani, from whom (by his marriage in Siautak) the reigning family of Siak in Sumatra are descended. He also married princesses of the reigning Malay families in Johor, Selangor and Kedah.
- (2) Daing Menimbun, from whom the Rajas of Pontianak, Matan and Brunei are descended.
