{"product_id":"from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-paperback","title":"From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra's \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is as necessary as it is timely--a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePankaj Mishra was born in India in 1969 and lives in London and Mashobra, India. The author of \u003ci\u003eAn End to Suffering \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eTemptations of the West \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2006), as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Romantics, \u003c\/i\u003ehe writes for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52910553366752,"sku":"9781250037718","price":23.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/y95yi3MCSM9781250037718.webp?v=1781454070","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}