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Shortly after the establishment of a British settlement in Singapore, one of Raffles’s immediate concerns was the formation of an institution of higher learning to educate the sons of the Malay chiefs; to teach the native languages to officers of the East India Company; and to collect the literature on the traditions, and laws and customs of ...
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles FRS FRAS (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824.
Sir Stamford Raffles was a British East Indian administrator and founder of the port city of Singapore (1819), who was largely responsible for the creation of Britain’s Far Eastern empire. He was knighted in 1816.
Syed Muhd Khairudin ALJUNIED. This article attempts to provide a revisionist perspective of South-east Asia’s historical icon by examining in detail Sir Thomas Raffles’ discursive strategies that sought to justify the study and preservation of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Malay World.
Two hundred years ago, an important treaty was negotiated by the Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, leading to the establishment of the British colony of Singapore. The foundation of modern Singapore and the actions of the British Empire marked a new chapter for this southern Asian island which grew into a commercial and cosmopolitan hub ...
His main belief was the importance of establishing a British free-trade port in Southeast Asia to facilitate connections between Britain's Indian colonies and its trade interests in China. Java's location was ideal, and Raffles was strongly in favour of Britain keeping the island as a colony.
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (July 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now the Republic of Singapore), and is one of the most famous Britons who expanded the British Empire. With such names as Cecil Rhodes, Lord Curzon, and Lord Cromer, Raffles is all but synonymous with the British imperial project.
