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From the Ruins of Empire The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

Pankaj Mishra

A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ben described it as an excellent intellectual history of the global South and decolonized societies seeking alternatives to Western hegemony.

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From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is a really excellent kind of intellectual history of, for lack of a better way of putting it, global south or people in decolonized spaces in the 20th centur...

— Episode: Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy

Episode: Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy

Ben described it as an excellent intellectual history of the global South and decolonized societies seeking alternatives to Western hegemony.

"

From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is a really excellent kind of intellectual history of, for lack of a better way of putting it, global south or people in decolonized spaces in the 20th century coming up with alternatives to Western hegemony.

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