(CENDEKIA) PERJUANGAN : MALAYSIA'S FORGOTTEN STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM [RAK 121]

"A study of debate, mobilizing concepts, disappointment, and ideological residue - a fresh analysis of Malay radicalism, written with passion and style, that will give a boost to the 'history of ideas' in Southeast Asia."

ANTHONY MILNER, Australian National University

"The story of the Malay radicals has never been told so fully and so vividly; the author has pieced together a fascinating history which he tells with considerable compassion. Though the history of the Malay radicals may, as the author suggests, be seen as a history of losers, if we never know about those who lost, we may never have a proper appreciation of those who won.. The prose is exceedingly readable (and often almost lyrical)."

CAROL TAN, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

"This is a highly readable and valuable contribution. Scholars of indigenous responses to colonialism would be interested in this twentieth-century example of a radical anti-colonial movement in a different corner of the British Empire, where groups of native Malay intellectuals and activists articulated their own visions of modernity and nationhood to contest colonial and male patriarchal discourse."