Article 152 of the Singapore Constitution: The past, present, and future of multiracial recognition, inclusion, and accommodation

• Main Author: TAN, Eugene K. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Singapore constitution; Malays; race relations; Singapore; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Race and Ethnicity
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3271; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99407911502601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Beyond%20Bicentennial:%20Perspectives%20on%20Malays&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The bicentennial commemoration consists of a year-long series of events to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore on 29 January 1819. The arrival of the British resulted in the creation of Singapore as a free port and marked the economic, physical, and social transformation of the island, which continues today. Yet, the irony is that the bicentennial commemoration also deliberately seeks to shed light and focus on a more distant past: The half-millennia before Singapore was colonialised and when Singapore was known as Temasek and seen as part of the Nusantara.