# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-sydenham-furnivall
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:36:58.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-sydenham-furnivall"
name: "John Sydenham Furnivall"
slug: "john-sydenham-furnivall"
description: "John Sydenham Furnivall was a British-born colonial public servant and writer in Burma. He is credited with coining the concept of the plural society and had a noted career as an influential historian of Southeast Asia, particularly of the Dutch East Indies and British Burma. He published several books over a long career, including the influential Colonial Policy and Practice and wrote for more than 20 major journals, although his work is now criticized as being Eurocentric and biased in favor of continued colonialism."
tagline: "British scholar (1878–1960)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1878-02-14"
deathDate: "1960-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           6.603852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون سيدنهام فيرنفال"
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    title: "John Sydenham Furnivall"
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    title: "Iohannes Sydenham Furnivall"
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  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%BD%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%86%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%92%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9F%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%96%E1%80%AC%E1%80%94%E1%80%AE%E1%80%97%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump