Rabindranath started for Madras from Calcutta to go to South East Asia on 12th July 1927 and from Madras to Singapore in 20th July and stayed there from 20th to 26 July, 1927. Surendranath Kar , Dhirendrakrishna Devbarma and Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay on behalf Calcutta University accompanied in the tour of Rabindranath to S.E. Asia. The Dutch Prof Bucke and his wife also accompanied Rabindranath. Prof Bucke and his wife were in Shantiniketan for sometime to collect some material information on Rabindra sangeet and eastern-classical music. After reaching Singapore they went to Yabadwip to get accomodation for Rabindranath. At that time Yabadwip was under Dutch rule. In Singapore Rabindranath stayed for 5/6 days, delivered many lectures, addressed many meetings, and get acquainted with many persons. The Indians in Singapore were mostly belonged to working class.They have come to see a renowned person coming from India and became pleased to see the elderly beautiful Rabindranath.
From Singapore the poet went to Malay where Abiram Williams reached earlier to make all arrangements for Rabindranath and his party.
They reached Malacca on 27th July, 1927 and stayed there upto 30th of July. The inhabitants of Malay are mainly Muslims with small states of Sultans Goverened by British. The main ruling class consisted of propreiters of Tea Gardens and owners of mines of Tin, mostly English. The persons coming from India, China and the Malayanese
