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Generations – The Story Of Batu Gajah
Dr. Ho Tak Ming tells the story of Batu Gajah and its pioneers – William Kellie Smith, who built the famous Kellie’s Castle, Charles Alma Baker, a surveyor, miner, and planter, Toh Indera Wangsa Ahmad, the maternal grandfather of HRH Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak and one of the most successful Malay tin miners, Ho Yuk Phooi, an early civil servant working in the Kinta Land Office, and Khi Nin, a pioneering tin miner.
As he delves into the old records, the author begins a journey of discovery as he learns of the truth behind Kellie’s Castle, the part his maternal grandfather, Khi Nin, played in the Kinta tin rush, and early-onset glaucoma forced his paternal grandfather, Ho Yuk Phooi, to change from civil servant to miner and planter.