Little India Brickfields

This guide to Little India Brickfields starts with the 1881 fire that leveled much of Kuala Lumpur's wooden city, and the Tamil workers from southern India and Sri Lanka who arrived to fire the bricks and lay the railway tracks that rebuilt it. It follows the temples, reading rooms and community institutions they founded along Jalan Tun Sambanthan over the following century, and traces the neighborhood's path to its 2010 official naming. Listen for how a district shaped by labor migration became, without any single plan, a place people call home.