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Encyclopedia Britannica



MENANGKABOS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 111 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MENANGKABOS , the most civilized of all the true Malays of Sumatra, inhabiting the mountains above Padang. Their
district
  is regarded as the cradle of the Malay race, and thence began, about x r6o, those migrations which ended in the true Malays becoming the dominant race throughout the peninsula and the Malay Archipelago. The Menangkabos are said to be the
original
  conquerors of the
island
 , and the real form of the word is Menang-Karbau (" victory of the
buffalo
  "), in reference to a local legend of a fight between a Sumatran and Javanesebuffalo, ending in victory for the former. Though converts to
Islam
 , the ancient confederate
village
  communes and the matriarchal system still exist. The people are divided into clans, the chiefs together forming the
district
  council. Early in the Igth century a religious sect was founded among the Manangkabos, known as " Padris " from its zealous proselytism, or Orang puti (white men) from the converts being dressed in white. The tendency was towards asceticism, the
chief
  tenet being the prohibition of opium, the use of which was made a
capital
  offence. The sect brought a large portion of the interior of Sumatra under its
rule
 , but the neighbouring tribes asked the Dutch to protect them, and this led to the
Netherlands
  government acquiring the Menangkabo territory.


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