Pankaj Mishra

From the Ruins of Empire

Essay examining the intellectual and political responses to Western imperialism

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Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra

Indian essayist and novelist whose Age of Anger traced the cultural roots of modern terrorism and populism in the Romantic reaction against Enlightenment rationalism. From the Ruins of Empire examined Asian intellectual responses to Western imperialism. He is the most cosmopolitan of contemporary essayists.

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