In Open Democracy, Julie Wark on Pankaj Mishra's recent book From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia:
In a recent interview at the London School of Economics, Pankaj Mishra describes the basic aim of his new book, From the Ruins of Empire, in the following terms: “The least this book can do is to impart a sense of how some of Asia’s most educated people responded to Western encroachment on their lands, how intelligent and sophisticated their response was to that encroachment, and how that response has shaped the world we live in today for better and for worse. In short, the history of the West is not the history of the world.”...[continue reading]
