Independent state on the island of Borneo ruled by the Brooke family as hereditary 'White Rajahs', granted by the Sultan of Brunei to James Brooke in 1841.
Ceded to the British Crown as a colony on 1 July 1946 by the third Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke; became part of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Raj of Sarawak — the shape you scrub through changes in 1841 · 1945.
Verified via Open Library (author + title + year match); standard narrative history of the Brooke dynasty.
Verified via Open Library; contemporary scholarly history covering the founding era.