Tan Tai Yong

Tan Tai Yong is Professor of South Asian history at the National University of Singapore. He is currently Executive Vice President (Academic Affairs) at Yale-NUS College, overseeing the academic and co-curricular aspects of the liberal arts experience, including all faculty matters and academic affairs. He is also Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS. ^[1]

Biography

Professor Tan obtained his first two degrees - BA (Hons), 1986, and MA, 1989 - from the National University of Singapore. He then went off to Cambridge University, where he earned his doctorate in South Asian history in 1992, under the supervision of Anthony Low. He has been a faculty member of the Department of History at NUS since 1992 and served the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as Sub-Dean (1994-1999), Head of the History Department (2000-2003), Vice-Dean (2001-2003) and Dean (2004-2009).

Research

Professor Tan's research interests are in the areas of Sikh diaspora, civil-military relations, social and political history of colonial Punjab, and the partition of South Asia. Lately, he has shifted his attention to Southeast Asia, and has been exploring issues of networks formation and the place of maritime cities in the region.

Selected Publications

• A 700 Year History of Singapore. From Classical Emporium to World City (with Kwa Chong Guan and Derek Heng), National Archives Singapore, 2009.
• Tai Yong Tan (2008). Creating "Greater Malaysia": Decolonization and the Politics of Merger. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 978-981-230-747-7. 
• Tan Tai Yong (2005). The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947. SAGE. ISBN 978-0-7619-3336-6. 
• Gyanesh Kudaisya; Tan Tai Yong (2002). The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-203-45060-4. 
• Beyond Degrees: The Making of the National University of Singapore (with Edwin Lee). Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1996.
• Singapore Khalsa Association. Singapore: Times Books International, 1988. (Second Edition, published by Marshall Cavendish, 2006)

References

External links

• Homepage at NUS

Members of the 13th Parliament of Singapore (since 2016)
Speaker: Halimah Yacob
Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) AljuniedWP Chen, S M Lim, S L Low, T K Faisal Singh Ang Mo KioPAP Ang, H K David Gan, T P Intan Koh, P K Lee, H L Bishan-Toa PayohPAP Chee, H T Chong, K H Ng, E H Saktiandi Teo, L M Chua Chu KangPAP Gan, K Y Low, Y L Yee, C H Zaqy East CoastPAP Lee, Y S Lim, S S Maliki Tan, S N Holland-Bukit TimahPAP de Souza Liang, E H Sim, A Vivian Jalan BesarPAP Heng, C H Neo, Lily Phua, L P Yaacob JurongPAP Ang, W N Lee, T S Rahayu Tharman Tan, W M Marine ParadePAP Fatimah Goh, C T Seah, K P Tan, C J Tong, C F Marsiling-Yew TeePAP Halimah Ong, T K Wong, S T Yam, Z M Nee SoonPAP Faishal Kwek, H C Lee, B W Ng, K K Shanmugam Pasir Ris-PunggolPAP Ng, C M Puthucheary Sun, X L Teo, C H Teo, S L Zainal SembawangPAP Amrin Khaw, B W Lim, W K Ong, Y K Vikram TampinesPAP Baey, Y K Cheng, L H Choo, P C Heng, S K Masagos Tanjong PagarPAP Chan, C S Chia, S L Indranee Pereira Yong, Y C West CoastPAP Foo, M H Iswaran Lim, H K Tay, T G Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) Bukit BatokPAP Ong, K H→Pillai Bukit PanjangPAP Teo, H P FengshanPAP Chan, W L Hong Kah NorthPAP Khor, L S HougangWP Png, E H MacPhersonPAP Tin, P L MountbattenPAP Lim, B C PioneerPAP Foo, C K Potong PasirPAP Sitoh, Y P Punggol EastPAP Chong, Y F Radin MasPAP Tan, C S Sengkang WestPAP Lam, P M YuhuaPAP Fu, H Y Non-elected members NCMP Perera Tan, L F Goh, P S NMPs Azmoon Chia, Y Y Chua, K S Ganesh Kok, H L Kuik, S Y Mohan Tan, G K Thanaletchimi
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