Makers of modern Asia / 
edited by Ramachandra Guha. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2014. 
 - 385 p. :  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 /  Den Xioping and the China he made /  Indira Ghandi: India and the world in transition /  Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew : traveling light, traveling fast /  Zulkifar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan /   Ramachandra Guha --  Ramachandra Guha --  Jay Taylor.  Sophie Quinn-Judge --  Rana Mitter.  Ramachandra Guha.   Chen Jian --  James S. Rush --  Odd Arne Westad --  Srinath Raghavan --  Michael D. Barr --  Farzana Shaikh.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Ch. 11. 
<br/><br/> The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, it presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674365414 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Politicians--Asia--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Politics and government--1945-<br/>Asia--Foreign relations--1945-
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>920