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100			_aMishra, Pankaj. _942448
245	1	0	_aFrom the ruins of empire : _bthe revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia / _cPankaj Mishra.
260			_aLondon ; New York : _bAllen Lane : an imprint of Penguin Books, _cc2012.
300			_axi, 356 p. ; _bill. : _c24 cm.
520			_aFrom Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image. The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire, burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be required. Pankaj Mishra's fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West. Incessantly travelling, questioning and agonising, they both hated the West and recognised that an Asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy. Through many setbacks and wrong turns, a powerful, contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to Al Qaeda, from Indian nationalism to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century.
650		7	_aEast and West _xHistory _y19th century. _944829
650		7	_aEast and West _xHistory _x20th century. _944830
650		7	_aCivilization. _916498
650		7	_aEast and West. _96701
650		7	_aAsia. _944831
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