மன்றத்தின் முன்னாள் தலைவர்கள் (Past Presidents)
| 1964 – 1973 | Prof.Jean Filliozat of France College de France, Paris |
| 1974 – 1980 | Prof.F.B.J.Kuiper, University of Leiden |
| 1981 – 1988 | R.E.Asher, University of London |
| 1989 – 2010 | Padma Shri Noboru Karashima, a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 2010 – till date | Tan Sri Prof.Dr.T. Marimuthu, Adjunct Professor at the School of Education and Cognitive Sciences, Kuala Lumpur |