Looking Back: The Historic Years of Malaya and Malaysia

Looking back through the arches of the years Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj surveys the rise of nationalism, the decline of imperialism and the development of a regional outlook in South-East Asia. With a percipient eye he notes the spread of Communism in the zone and the clash between men of faith and men of non-faith (particularly those of Islamic, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist beliefs) in their joint struggle against the tide of materialism. As a lawyer, statesman, diplomat and Prime Minister and born leader of men, he looks with frankness and candour on his confreres and contemporaries of both East and West, associating the events of his own career to the emergence of nationhood and to his lifetime of fostering friendship and peace between men and nations of goodwill everywhere. As the father of two nations, first Malaya and then Malaysia, and as the founder of ASA (now ASEAN), it is given to few other men in this region to know and understand with foresight and insight the forces and influences that are working on the destinies of South-East Asia, a crucial area of the world which is showing now the possible shape of things to come. ISBN LOOKINGBACKTU