{"product_id":"from-the-ruins-of-empire-9781250037718","title":"From the Ruins of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review Editors'' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407248138583,"sku":"9781250037718","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250037718.jpg?v=1730498715","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-the-ruins-of-empire-9781250037718","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}