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From The Ruins Of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (2012)

by Pankaj Mishra(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385676107 (ISBN13: 9780385676106)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Doubleday Canada

review 1: Hard to say exactly why this doesn't work. Something to do with the author's inability to tell a story. It feels as though the information is given out as in a list, one fact after another, in a way impossible to connect with. Some interesting info on non-western intellectuals and political thought in Asia and the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but none of it feels deep or revealing.
review 2: History of the people, in particular Afghani, Liang Qichao and Tagore, and events that would go onto shape the modern nation states in the East from Turkey to Japan that were formed from the ashes of the great empires, ottoman, Mughal, Qing and others, that were colonized by the power hungry, materialistic and spiritually less evolved West. One ca... moren also trace the origins of the modern day dynamics of the Islamic world. Pankaj Mishra's writing is gripping. History buff like me would love it. less

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