Dr John Bastin is is the leading authority on Sir Stamford Raffles and his circle. Emeritus Reader in the Modern History of South-East Asia in the University of London, he was foundation Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Malaya and subsequently Reader in the Modern History of SouthEast Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was also a foundation Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies and the General Editor of the Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints and the author of numerous books and articles on the history of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
