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 thinkers--Tagore, 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 Empire--are
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 possible as never before, "From the Ruins
of Empire" is as necessary as it is timely--a book indispensable to
our understanding of the world and our place in it.
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