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A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice

A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD

A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent''s rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkersTagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empireare seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia''s revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems p

From the Ruins of Empire

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 27 August 2013
      ISBN-13 9781250037718
      978-1250037718
      ISBN-10 1250037719
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      Asian history

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      Book Synopsis

      A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice

      A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD

      A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent''s rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkersTagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empireare seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia''s revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems p

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