Villagers reflect on early days of 54th estate

By EDWARD RAJENDRA

Workers at the Ampar Tenang Tea Estate in a photo dated 1960.

INDIANS in Dengkil, Sepang call the Ampar Tenang Indian settlement, ambaartenaar estate, which means 54th estate in Tamil.

Ampar Tenang derives its name from a combination of an English planter’s name A. Lampard and the Malay word tenang, which means calm or peaceful.

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