From the ruins of empire : the intellectuals who remade Asia

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From the ruins of empire : the intellectuals who remade Asia

Title remainder

the intellectuals who remade Asia

Statement of responsibility

Pankaj Mishra

Creator

• Mishra, Pankaj

Subject

• Asia -- Civilization -- 19th century
• Asia -- Civilization -- 20th century
• Asia -- History -- 19th century
• Asia -- History -- 20th century
• Asia -- Intellectual life
• Biographies
• East and West -- History
• East and West -- History -- 19th century
• Anti-imperialist movements -- Asia -- History
• History
• Intellectuals -- Asia
• Intellectuals -- Asia -- Biography
• Social change -- Asia -- History
• East and West -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography
• History
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian navy at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent's anticipated rise to dominance. Asian dominance did not come to pass, and those thinkers are seen as outriders from the main anticolonial tradition. But, in this stereotype-shattering book, Pankaj Mishra shows that it was otherwise. His enthralling group portrait of like minds scattered across a vast continent makes clear that modern Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants but one with deep roots in the work of thinkers who devised a view of life that was neither modern nor antimodern, neither colonialist nor anticolonialist. In broad, deep, dramatic chapters, Mishra tells the stories of these figures, unpacks their philosophies, and reveals their shared goals. - Jacket flap
• Provides an overview of the great thinkers and philosophical leaders from across Asia who helped change and shape the modern continent, including Tagore and Gandhi in India, Liang Qichao in China and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim in the Ottoman Empire

Cataloging source

AZZPT

Dewey number

950.3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DS33.7

LC item number

.M54 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography