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From the Ruins of Empire : The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Condition:Good He is one of theViewed in the West as a time of self confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire or burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, it was clear that for Asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Pankaj Mishra re tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and