from the ruins of empire by pankaj mishra

Liang Qichao's China and the fate of Asia.

An insignificant man in rough garments The 'sick man' of Europe and his dangerous self-therapy Egypt : the polemicist emerges Beyond self-strengthening : the origins of pan-Islamism and nationalism The European interlude Apotheosis in Persia In a golden cage : al-Afghani's last days in Istanbul The long aftermath.

The strange odyssey of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.

Egypt : 'the beginning of a series of great misfortunes' The slow battering of India and China The new global hierarchy.

He lives in London, Shimla and New York.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. He writes principally for the Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books and New York Review of Books. Pankaj Mishra is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludiana, The Romantics, An End to Suffering and Temptations of the West.

'Subtle, erudite and entertaining' Economist, New Delhi retains the power to shock' Mark Mazower, Financial Times 'Provocative, shaming and convincing' Michael Binyon, The Times

a rich and genuinely thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph deeply entertaining and deeply humane' Hisham Matar 'A riveting account that makes new and illuminating connections. this penetrating and disquieting book should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to understand where we are today' John Gray, Independent Pankaj Mishra re-tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim Brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire or burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, it was clear that for Asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013

From the ruins of empire by pankaj mishra