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About Syed Hussein Alatas
Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.
Everything about Syed Hussein Alatas →- Occupation
- lecturer, politician, sociologist, writer
- Citizenship
- Malaysia
- Born
- September 17, 1928
- Died
- January 23, 2007