From the Ruins of Empire
The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
"What gives From the Ruins of Empire its charm and richness of texture is that its main focus is not on major players such as Gandhi and Mao, but on two little-known and seemingly ineffectual intellectuals whose writings would inspire later generations. . . . It gives a voice to characters often ignored by western historians and makes an eloquent contribution to the 'west versus the rest' debate." The Guardian (UK)
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…
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September 9, 2014
Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.
The World After Gaza
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster; Edited by Oliver Stallybrass; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Time Regulation Institute
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar; Translated by Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
India in Mind
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