E-grāmata: Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century

A fascinating new book. -- Sudheendra Kulkarni * The Wire * Makes more complete our understanding of the long and radical meeting of East and West in our countriesa book to savor. -- Shivshankar Menon * Biblio * Bose is at the top of his gamea brilliant, urgent, and passionate book. -- Tim Harper, University of Cambridge Boses book focuses on the history of a group of extraordinary Asian intellectuals who played a seminal role in reviving the idea of Asia as a distinct civilisational zone, with shared values and sensibilities, very different from Europe. The author recounts in a most vivid and readable style the history of the 'intellectual, cultural and political conversations across Asia' among those who 'challenged European colonial domination to dream of the futurism of young Asia'the importance of Boses rigorously researched book lies in the pioneering exploration of the literary and artistic streams which flowed back and forth in the Asian spaceThis is an important book for anyone interested in the future of Asia. -- Shyam Saran * The Tribune * Rarely would one read a history of thought and one of an evolving continental identity as exciting as [ this]. -- Subhir Bhaumik * Eurasia Review * Redefines Asias modern historical role, foregrounding its intellectual and political agency while challenging entrenched Eurocentric narrativesa landmark contribution to transnational intellectual history [ that]not only enriches our understanding of Asias past but also offers a compelling framework for rethinking its future. -- Stefan Messingschlager * Global Intellectual History * A trenchant, capacious, and moving feast of historical interpretation. Drawing on the full breadth of insights from a distinguished career studying Asias interconnected past, Sugata Bose illuminates ways to a more plural and inclusive Asian future. -- Sunil Amrith, Yale University In this enthralling intellectual history of a continent, Bose breaks out of European referents to focus on the mobility of Asian people, ideas, and imaginaries. A pathbreaking foray into the making of modern Asia. -- Seema Alavi, Ashoka University This is a deeply felt and carefully argued book. Sugata Bose captures the hopes and misjudgments of generations of Asian thinkers. He makes us wonder if the US-led international system based on sovereign nation-states and the new nationalisms that this system produced might have lured Asia too far for its alternative forms of universalism to succeed. Highly recommended. -- Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore A brilliant history of continental connections which offers vital lessons for Asias shared future. -- Amartya Sen, Harvard University