GEORGE TOWN: Author Khoo Salma Nasution (pic) could not imagine herself winning the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2015 as she was still firmly behind the favourite as the voting process was about to conclude.
Her fortune changed for the better after The Star ran an article about her book, The Chulia in Penang: Patronage and Place-Making around the Kapitan Kling Mosque 1786–1957, an account of the prosperous Penang Tamil Muslims who were once known as Chulias.
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