Asia: The Winning of Independence

by Robin Jeffrey (Editor & Contributor)

Introduction / Robin Jeffrey -- The Philippines / Alfred W. McCoy -- India / Robin Jeffrey -- Indonesia / Anthony Reid -- Vietnam / David Marr -- Malaya / Lee Kam Hing -- Conclusion / D.A. Low.

337 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1981

About the author

Robin Jeffrey studied first at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, obtaining a BA degree. He was awarded a D.Phil in modern Indian history by the University of Sussex, England, in 1973 and had previously worked as a school teacher in Chandigarh, India, for the Regional Institute of English and the Canadian University Service Overseas between 1967 and 1969. His first employment had been in 1963 as a sports writer for a daily newspaper in Canada.

Jeffrey took up a position as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught there during two different periods. He taught politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, between 1979 and 2005, where he became a professor. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, having been previously elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994.

Jeffrey is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University and the Australian National University. He chairs an advisory panel of the Australia India Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He has been a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, at the National University of Singapore, since 2009.