Director

Professor Tan Tai Yong
Email: isasdir@nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 65164239 / 65163986
Fax: (65) 6776 7505 / (65) 631 5447

Professor Tan Tai Yong was appointed Director of the Institute of South Asia Studies on 1 June 2008.

Professor Tan has been an integral part of the Institute since its inception. He was Acting Director of the Institute from July 2004 to July 2006 and from April 2007 to May 2008. Professor Tan, a historian, is concurrently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.

He has written extensively on South Asian history as well as on Southeast Asia and Singapore. His recent books include Creating ‘Greater Malaysia’: Decolonisation and the Politics of Merger (2008); Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader (co-edited, 2007); The Garrison State (2005), The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (co-authored, 2000) and The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on De-colonisation (co-edited, 2003).