Raja Chulan

Raja Chulan ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II Habibullah KBE (1 July 1869 – 10 April 1933) was a member of the Perak royal family.

He was the son of Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II.

Having obtained his education from the Malacca High School and the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, he joined with the British, as well as with the sultans of Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang to form a federation, dubbed the Federated Malay States, on 1 July 1896, the nucleus around which the present-day Malaysia was eventually created.

Raja Chulan had also urged the British to improve the Malay people's economic standing and their access to employment in the civil service.

[1] He died on 10 April 1933 and was buried in the Al-Ghufran Royal Mausoleum, Kuala Kangsar, Perak.

Raja Chulan (left) accompanying Sultan Idris Shah I of Perak (right) in London at the Houses of Parliament , 1906.