Syed Hussein Alatas Author

Syed Hussein Alatas (1928–2007) was head of the Department of Malay Studies at the University of Singapore when he published this 1971 essay in Australia. Professor Alatas served as vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in the late 1980s. Syed Farid Alatas is professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.