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Cambridge Adds Malay Studies Post

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Cambridge Adds Malay Studies Post

About time, too

Philip Bowring
Jan 17, 2021
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Cambridge Adds Malay Studies Post

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Cambridge University is appointing a lectureship in Malay Area Studies. That may not sound like news, but the remarkable fact is that neither of the United Kingdom’s oldest and best-known universities has ever had such a post. Oxford University was advised in 1682 by the directors of the English East India Company to appoint two professors of Malay, one…

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