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Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha. - 1 online resource (385 pages.) :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Gandhi, India, and the world / Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Ho Chi Minh: nationalist icon / Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics / Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century / Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Indira Gandhi: India and the world in transition / Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew: traveling light, traveling fast / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan / Ramachandra Guha -- Ramachandra Guha -- Jay Taylor -- Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Rana Mitter -- Ramachandra Guha -- Chen Jian -- James R. Rush -- Odd Arne Westad -- Srinath Raghavan -- Michael D. Barr -- Farzana Shaikh.

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Electronic reproduction.
Ipswich, MA
Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780674735781 (electronic bk.) 0674735781 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 99968468197

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Politicians--Asia--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Politics and government--1945-
Asia--Foreign relations--1945-

LC Class. No.: DS35.2 / .M36 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 950.4/20922