Professor Tan Tai Yong

Books/Monographs Authored

• Tan, T Y, Singapore Khalsa Association, Singapore: Times Books International, 1988.
• Tan, T Y and E S C Lee, Beyond Degrees: The Making of the National University of Singapore, Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1996.
• Tan, T Y and Gyanesh Kudaisya, The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, London: Routledge, 2000 and 2002.
• Tan, T Y, The Garrison State Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, New Delhi: SAGE, 2005.
• Tan, T Y, Creating Greater Malaysia: Decolonization and the Politics of Merger, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publications, 2008.
• Tan, T Y, C G Kwa and D Heng, Singapore: A 700-Year History - From Early Emporium to World City, Singapore, 2009.
• Tan, T Y, D Heng, C G Kwa and P Borschberg, Singapore: Seven Hundred Years – A History of Singapore, Singapore, 2019.
• Tan, T Y, The Idea of Singapore: Smallness Unconstrained, Singapore, 2019.

Editorial Work on Books

• Tan, T Y, Mark Frey and R. W Pruessen, eds., The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonisation, Armonk, New York: M E Sharpe, 2003.
• Tan, T Y and Gyanesh Kudaisya, eds., Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader, Afghanistan: Routledge, 2007. (Volume 1: History Writing, Violence, Borders; Volume 2: Gender, Minorities, Migrants and Volume 3: Identities, Geopolitics, Reconciliation).
• Tan, T Y, eds., Socio-Political and Economic Challenges in South Asia, New Delhi: Sage, 2009.
• Tan, T Y, eds., South Asia. Societies in Political and Economic Transition, New Delhi: Manohar, 2010.
• Tan, T Y and S. D. Muni, eds., A Resurgent China. South Asian Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2012.
• Tan, T Y and M M Rahman, eds., Diaspora Engagement and Development in South Asia, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
• Rahman, M M, T Y Tan and Ahsan Ullah, eds., Migrant Remittances in South Asia: Implications for Development, Afghanistan: Palgrave Macmillan (UK), 2014.
• Rahman, M M and T Y Tan, eds., International Migration and Development in South Asia, London and New York: Routledge (UK & USA), 2015.
• Bhattacharya, A K, and T Y Tan eds., Looking Ahead: India and Singapore in the new millennium - Celebrating 50 years of Diplomatic Relations, New Delhi, 2016

• Tan, T Y, "Prelude to partition: Sikh responses to the demand for Pakistan, 1940-47". International Journal of Punjab Studies, 1, no. 2 (1994): 167-195. (India).
• Tan, T Y, "Maintaining the military districts: Civil-military integration and district soldiers' boards in the Punjab, 1919-1939". Modern Asian Studies, 28, no. 4 (1994): 833-874. (United States).
• Tan, T Y, "Assuaging the Sikhs: Government Responses to the Akali Movement, 1920-1925". Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 29, part. Part 3 (1995): 655-703. (United States).
• Tan, T Y, "Punjab and the making of Pakistan: The roots of a civil-military state". South Asia, Vol. XVIII (Special Issue) (1995). (Australia).
• Tan, T Y, "'Sir Cyril goes to India’: Partition, boundary-making and disruptions in the Punjab". International Journal of Punjab Studies, 4, no. 1 (1997): 1-18. (India).
• Tan, T Y, "An imperial home-front: Punjab and the First World War". Journal of Military History, no. 64 (2000): 371-410. (United States).
• Tan, T Y, "Mobilisation, Militarisation and Malcontentment: Punjab and the Second World War". South Asia, 25, no. 2 (Special Issue on Essays in Honour of Professor D. A. Low) (2002): 137-151. (Australia).
• Tan, T Y, "Surviving Globalisation: An Historical Perspective". Commentary, 18 (Special on Globalisation) (2002): 17-22. (Singapore).
• Tan, T Y, "Port Cities and Hinterlands. A Comparative Study of Singapore and Calcutta". Political Geography, (2007). (United Kingdom).
• Tan, T Y and C M See, "The Evolution of India-ASEAN Relations". India Review, 8, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 2009). (United Kingdom).

• Tan, T Y, "The challenges of history". In World of Humanities, ed. Brenda Yeoh and Chua Beng Huat, 12-15. Singapore: Gifted Education Unit, Ministry of Education, 1994.
• Tan, T Y, "India and Indians in the making of Singapore, 1819-1990" (with Andrew Major). In Singapore-India Relations: A Primer, ed. Assoc Prof Yong Mun Cheong, 1-20. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1995.
• Tan, T Y, "Punjab and the making of Pakistan: The roots of a civil-military state". In Freedom, Trauma, Continuities, ed. D A Low and Howard Brasted, 199-215. Studies in Contemporary South Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998.
• Tan, T Y, ‘A Post-war history of the Asia-Pacific’, Asia-Europe Foundation, Lund, 2000
• Tan, T Y, "Singapore: Civil-Military Fusion". In Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia, ed. Alagappa, Muthiah, 276-293. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
• Tan, T Y, ‘Social Development in Post-War Asia’, Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore, 2001.
• Tan, T Y, "Sepoys and the Colonial State: Punjab and the Military Base of the Indian Army 1849-1900". In British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939, ed. Prof P. S. Gupta, 7-44. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  
• Tan, T Y, "The "Grand Design”: British Policy, Local Politics, and the Making of Malaysia, 1955-1961". In The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonisation, ed. Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen, Tan Tai Yong, 142-160. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2003.
• Tan, T Y, "Sir Herbert Emerson". In New Dictionary of National Biography, comp. British Academy and Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  
• Tan, T Y, "Government of British India". In Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia. Santa Barbara: ABC - CLIO, 2004.
• Tan, T Y, "Subhas Chandra Bose". In Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia. Santa Barbara: ABC - CLIO, 2004.
• Tan, T Y, "Indian National Army from Ang Kor Wat to East Timor". In Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopaedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
• Tan, T Y, "Early Southeast Asian Maritime Trade and Historical Overview of Pre-colonial Singapore". In Maritime Heritage of Singapore, Singapore, 2005.
• Tan, T Y, "The Indian Ocean - Arabs and Indian Traders". In Maritime Heritage of Singapore, Singapore, 2005.
• Tan, T Y, "Early Entrepot Portal - Trade and Founding of Singapore". In Maritime Heritage of Singapore, Singapore, 2005.
• Tan, T Y, "Singapore’s Story: A Port City in Search of Hinterlands". In Port Cities in Asia and Europe, ed. Arndt Graf and Chua Beng Huat. London: Routledge, 2009.
  
• Tan, T Y, "The Armed Forces and Politics in Singapore". In The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia. Conflict and Leadership, ed. Marcus Mietzner. London: Routledge, 2011.
• Tan, T Y, "The Cold War and the Making of Singapore". In Cold War Southeast Asia, ed. Malcolm H. Murfett, 132-164. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2012.
• Tan, T Y and M M Rahman, "Diaspora engagement and development in South Asia – An Introduction". In Diaspora Engagement and Development in South Asia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Tan, T Y and K C Ho, "Evolution of the Social Security System in Singapore". In Asset Building - Strategies and Innovations in Asia, 87-102. China: Peking University Press, 2014.
• Rahman, M M, T Y Tan and Dr Ahsan, "Migrant Remittances in South Asia: Introduction". In Migrant Remittances in South Asia. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (UK), 2014.
• Tan T Y “Engaging China and India: Interests, Challenges and Opportunities” in Rise of China and India, Implications for the Asia Pacific. New Delhi: Manohar Press, 2014
• Tan, T Y and K C Ho, "The Evolution of Singapore's Social Security System". In Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia, ed. Michael Sherraden, Li Zhou, H.B Ku, Sou Deng and SB Wang. New York: Routledge, 2015.
• Rahman, M M and T Y Tan, "International Migration and Development in South Asia - Introduction". In International Migration and Development in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge (UK & USA), 2015.
• Tan T Y, “India-ASEAN Relations at Seventy”. In Seven Decades of Independent India – Ideas and Reflections, ed. Vinod Rai and Amitendu Palit. India: Penguin Random House, 2018
• Tan T Y, “The Rise of Nationalism and the Anti-Colonial Movement in Singapore”. In 200 Years of Singapore and the United Kingdom, ed. Tommy Koh and Scott Wightman. Singapore: Straits Times Press, 2019