I do not remember having encountered the name of Richard Olaf Winstedt (1878-1966) before now. A scholar of Malay language and culture and Malayan history, he was an Oxonian (Magdalen, New College) and the first president (1928-31) of Raffles College, a predecessor of University of Malaya and NUS. He served in the Malayan Civil Service until his retirement.
A name that deserves to be better known in these parts of the world (Chersonesus Aurea).
Here appear occasional jottings of my random musings. Profound or jejune, they reveal the contours of my mental universe, with world history, intellectual history, civilizations, philosophy, religion, society, knowledge, and books as some major themes. Since May 2011, this blog has been exclusively focused on Singapore. All my other reflections are now posted in "Notes from Noosphere" (see link under "Miscellany" on the right margin).
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He wrote the well known "The Malays: A Cultural History, and "Malaya and its History" Also a well known short Malay-English Dictionary.
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