Abstract:95is that it should be on even a very short list. Dr. Mansur is a scholar with a remarkably wide range-which indeed she needs for a book which covers Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Ghana, with many side references to French West Africa and Nigeria. This is essentially a study of politics. Dr. Mansur covers first the origin and training of both the older traditional 61ites and of those who enrolled 'the masses' behind the campaign for independence. She then covers the circumstances in which power was gained, th… Show more
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