… Kelvin Ng - Vernacular Equality: Malayan Tamil Labor between Radicalism and Reform, 1920-1940 … Kelvin Ng - Vernacular Equality: Malayan Tamil Labor between Radicalism and Reform, 1920-1940 Asia History … Tamil and Malay, my paper, “Vernacular Equality: The Labor Question in Colonial Malaya, 1920– 1940,” examines the …