Temple treasurer Murali Samy standing among the temple’s ornate religious chariots once used during ceremonial processions. (Bernama pic)JOHOR BAHRU: An old ship ticket can look like an unremarkable scrap of paper. At the Indian Heritage Centre here, however, it represents the beginning of a much larger journey.
Among the centre’s most evocative exhibits are original tickets for the SS Rajula and MV Chidambaram, vessels that carried Indian passengers to Malaya through Penang before many travelled on to other states in search of work, including on rubber estates.
They sit alongside rubber-tapping tools, machinery once used to produce rubber sheets, goldsmithing equipment, and old money chests and transaction records belonging to the Chettiar community.
