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From the Ruins of Empire

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by Pankaj Mishra


  27 Dutta and Robinson, Rabindranath Tagore, p. 200.

  28 Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West, p. 61.

  29 Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra (eds.), Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (New York, 2010), p. 103.

  30 Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea (New York, 1906), p. 4.

  31 Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West, p. 73.

  32 Ibid., pp. 78 – 9.

  33 Ibid., p. 136.

  34 Ibid., p. 200.

  35 Dev and Tan (eds.), Tagore and China, p. 30.

  36 Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West, p. 227.

  37 Ibid., p. 168.

  38 Ibid., p. 170.

  39 Jonathan Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and their Revolution, 1895 – 1980 (New York, 1982), p. 216.

  40 Tagore, Letters to a Friend, p. 110.

  41 Dev and Tan (eds.), Tagore and China, p. 79.

  42 Tagore, Letters to a Friend, p. 118.

  43 Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson (eds.), Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology (New York, 1997), p. 127.

  44 Dev and Tan (eds.), Tagore and China, p. 37.

  45 Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West, p. 172.

  46 Ibid., p. 316.

  47 Dutta and Robinson, Rabindranath Tagore, p. 252.

  48 Ibid.

  49 Ibid., p. 347.

  50 Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West, p. 320.

  51 Dev and Tan (eds.), Tagore and China, p. 76.

  52 Rabindranth Tagore, Crisis in Civilization (Delhi, 2002), p. 260.

  53 Dutta and Robinson, Rabindranath Tagore, pp. 300 – 301.

  6. ASIA REMADE

  1 Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man (London, 1995), p. 301.

  2 Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea (New York, 1906), p. 2.

  3 John D. Pierson, Tokutomi Soh 1863 – 1957: A Journalist for Modern Japan (Princeton, 1980), p. 371.

  4 Ibid., p. 375.

  5 William Theodore De Bary, Carol Gluck and Arthur E. Tiedemann (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 – 2000, vol. 2 (New York, 2006), p. 136.

  6 Donald Keene (ed.), So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (New York, 2010), p. 14.

  7 De Bary, Gluck and Tiedemann (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 2, p. 137.

  8 Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941 – 1945 (London, 2007), p. 7.

  9 Keene (ed.), So Lovely a Country, p. 30.

  10 Rotem Kowner (ed.), The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (London, 2006), p. 230.

  11 Keene (ed.), So Lovely a Country, p. 41.

  12 Jawaharlal Nehru, Autobiography (1936; repr. edn New Delhi, 1989), p. 488.

  13 Ibid., p. 632.

  14 Keene (ed.), So Lovely a Country, p. 40.

  15 Ibid., p. 43.

  16 Bayly and Harper, Forgotten Armies, p. 356.

  17 Keene (ed.), So Lovely a Country, p. 41.

  18 Eri Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War 1931 – 1945 (New York, 2007), p. 217.

  19 Stephen N. Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and his Critics in Japan, China, and India (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), p. 70.

  20 Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (London, 2007), p. 149.

  21 Hotta, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War, p. 218.

  22 Christopher De Bellaigue, Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup (London, 2012), p. 179.

  23 Bayly and Harper, Porgotten Wars, p. 18.

  24 De Bary, Gluck and Tiedemann (eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 2, p. 138.

  25 Mohit Kumar Ray (ed.), The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, vol. 7 (Delhi, 2007), p. 970.

  26 Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman (eds.), Pan Asianism: A Documentary History, Vol. 1, 1850 – 1920 (Lanham, Md., 2011), p. 98.

  27 Charlotte Furth and Guy Alitto, The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China (Cambridge, Mass., 1976), p. 229.

  28 Michael Collins, Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore’s Writings on History, Politics and Society (New York, 2011), p. 67.

  29 Herlee G. Creel, Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Mao Tse Tung (Chicago, 1971), p. 237.

  30 Furth and Alitto, The Limits of Change, p. 197.

  31 Ayesha Jalal, Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 (New York, 2000), p. 170.

  32 Muhammad Iqbal, The Call of the Caravan Bell, trans. Umrao Singh Sher Gil, http://www.disna.us/files/The_Call_of_The_Caravan_Bell.pdf, p. 47.

  33 Ali Shariati and Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iqbal: Manifestations of the Islamic Spirit, trans. Laleh Bakhtiar (Ontario, 1991), p. 31.

  34 Ibid., p. 75.

  35 Javeed Majeed, Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (Delhi, 2009), p. xxiii.

  36 Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Modern Islam in India (Lahore, 1943), p. 111.

  37 Reza Asian, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (New York, 2005), p. 232.

  38 Taha Hussein, The Future of Culture in Egypt (Washington, D.C., 1955), p. 17.

  39 Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Lahore, 1944), p. 159.

  40 Roxanne Euben, Enemy in the Mirror. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism: A Work of Comparative Political Theory (Princeton, 1999), p. 49.

  41 Nehru, Autobiography, p. 519.

  42 Ibid., p. 520.

  43 John Calvert, Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (London, 2010), p. 117.

  44 Ibid., p. 154.

  45 Ibid., p. 149.

  46 Euben, Enemy in the Mirror, p. 68.

  47 Calvert, Sayyid Qutb, p. 105.

  48 Ibid., p. 161.

  49 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones (Delhi 1973), p. 3.

  50 Said Amir Arjomand, ‘Iran’s Islamic Revolution in comparative perspective’, World Politics, 38, 3 (Apr. 1986), p. 407.

  51 Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Chicago, 2005), p. 4.

  52 Shariati and Khamenei, Iqbal: Manifestations of the Islamic Spirit, p. 38.

  53 Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Occidentosis: A Plague from the West, ed. Hamid Algar (Berkeley, 1984), p. 34.

  54 Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge, 2000), p. 113.

  55 Hamid Dabashi, Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (New Brunswick, N.J., 2006), p. 355.

  56 Ali Shariati, Reflections of a Concerned Muslim: On the Plight of Oppressed Peoples, trans. Ali A. Behzadnia and Najpa Denny (Houston, Tex., 1979), pp. 9 – 10.

  57 Ali Shariati, Marxism and Other Western Fallacies: An Islamic Critique, trans. R. Campbell (Berkeley, 1980), p. 49.

  58 Ali Gheissari, Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (Austin, Tex., 1998), p.101.

  59 Hamid Algar (trans.), Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini (Berkeley, 1981), p. 28.

  60 Ali Shariati, On the Sociology of Islam, trans. Hamid Algar (Berkeley, 2000), p. 23.

  61 Translated from the Urdu by Ali Mir (unpublished).

  62 Daniel Brumberg, Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran (Chicago, 2001), p. 198.

  63 Orhan Pamuk, ‘The anger of the damned’, New York Review of Books, 15 November 2001.

  64 Ibid.

  65 M. ükrü Hanioglu, Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton, 2011), p. 205.

  66 Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Muslim Mind (Delhi, 1988), p. 62.

  67 Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Lahore, 1944), p. 162.

  68 Feroz Ahmad, From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Istanbul, 2008), p. 323.

  69 Julia Lovell, The Opium War (London, 2011), p. 321.

  70 Ibid.
, p. 330.

  71 Ibid., p. 331.

  72 Timothy Cheek (ed.), A Critical Introduction to Mao (Cambridge, 2010), p. 31.

  73 Shao Chuan Leng and Norman D. Palmer, Sun Yat-sen and Communism (New York, 1961), p. 157.

  74 Stuart R. Schram (ed.), Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912 – 1949. Vol. 7 New Democracy, 1939 – 1941 (New York, 2005), pp. 330 – 69.

  75 Peter Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, 1895 – 1949 (New York, 2005), p.15.

  76 Alexis de Tocqueville, ‘The European Revolution’ and Correspondence with Gobineau (New York, 1959), p. 268.

  77 Andre Malraux, The Temptation of the West, trans. Robert Hollander (New York, 1974), p. 104.

  EPILOGUE: AN AMBIGUOUS REVENGE

  1 Ryszard Kapuciski, The Soccer War (London, 1990), p. 106.

  2 Nicolaus Mills and Michael Walzer (eds.), 50 Years of Dissent (New York, 2004), p. 35.

  Acknowledgements

  This book rises from the shoulders of many specialist studies and general global histories. But it is also a collaborative work in another sense. Moving from the Ottomans to late Qing China, I was more than aware that I was breaching disciplinary boundaries and academic protocols. My occasionally impudent forays were enabled by generous friends both in academia and outside it. They suggested books and papers and read my manuscript, alerting me to errors of fact and interpretation. Those that remain in the finished book should not be blamed on Tabish Khair, Jonathan Shainin, Ananya Vajpeyi, Manan Ahmad, Hussein Omar, Masoud Golsarkhi, Wang Hui, Suzy Hansen, Siddhartha Deb, Alex Travelli, Adam Shatz, Nader Hashemi, Jeff Kingston, Jason Epstein, Shashank Kela or Jeffrey Wasserstrom, all of whom read different parts of the work-in-progress and frankly expressed their opinions. I was also very fortunate to have such sceptical, challenging and well-informed editors as Simon Winder and Paul Elie. Gratitude is also due to the staff at the Bleibtreu Hotel, Berlin, where I started working on this book; the London Library, which supplied so many materials for it; and the Sharmas at Mashobra, who have afforded me, for two decades now, that vital sanctuary in which to write – and, more important, daydream.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages of your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  Abduh, Mohammed

  collaboration with British in Egypt

  in Egypt

  and liberalism

  in Paris

  parts with al-Afghani

  Abdulaziz, Sultan

  Abdulhamid II, Sultan

  and al-Afghani

  exile

  and Japan’s modernization

  Ottoman constitution

  pan-Islamism

  Abdullah Cevdet

  Abdulmejid, Sultan

  Abdurreshid Ibrahim

  Abu Talib Khan, Mirza

  Abu-Naddara Zarqa (journal)

  al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din

  in Afghanistan

  anti-imperialism

  background

  beliefs

  on British in India

  clothing

  ‘Despotic Government’

  disciples

  education for Muslims

  in Egypt

  expulsion from Egypt

  expulsion from Istanbul

  expulsion from Persia

  grave and tomb

  illness and death

  in India

  Iqbal’s poem

  Iranian hero

  and Islam

  in Istanbul

  legacy

  liberal religious reform

  in London

  and the Mahdi

  in Moscow

  and Muslim backwardness

  on Muslim condition

  and nationalism

  on need for modernization

  pan-Islamism

  in Paris

  parts with Abduh

  and Persia

  Persian origins

  Persian shah’s assassination

  Persian suspicions of

  private life

  reform and the Koran

  ‘Refutation of the Materialists’

  reinterpretation of tradition

  Russia and Britain

  Sayyid Khan as deluded Westerner

  Shariati on

  as Sunni Muslim

  ‘The True Reason for Man’s Happiness’

  al-[’A] Urwa al-wuthqa

  and Western powers

  and women’s rights

  Afghanistan

  al-Afghani in

  al-Afghani’s tomb

  British in

  communist regime

  and global jihad

  militant refuge

  Second Afghan War

  Ahmad Fadzli Beg

  Al-e Ahmad, Jalal

  Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

  Ahmed Vefik

  Ajia Gikai (Society for the Asian Cause)

  Akbar Illahabadi

  al- see second syllable of name

  Algeria, French occupation

  Ali, Maulana Muhammad

  Ali Pasha

  Ali Suavi

  Arab Spring

  Arendt, Hannah

  Armenians

  Asia

  communist ideology

  economic growth and inequality

  intellectual awakening

  liberalism

  minorities and the nation-state

  modernization

  nationalism

  pan-Asianism

  virtual communities

  and Western decline

  and Western power over

  Asian Solidarity Group

  Atatiirk, Mustafa Kemal

  background

  Japan’s Russo-Japanese victory

  in Libya

  nation-state of Turkey

  and pan-Islamism

  Atta, Mohammed

  Aung San

  Aurobindo Ghose

  Awadh province, India

  Babism

  Balakot, Battle of

  al-Banna, Hasan

  Baqar, Maulvi

  Barakatullah, Maulvi

  Bazargan, Mehdi

  Beijing Consensus

  Bengal

  bin Laden, Osama

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

  Boer War

  Bose, Rash Behari

  Bose, Subhas Chandra

  Boxer Rising

  Britain

  in Afghanistan

  al-Afghani’s distrust

  and China

  conquests in Asia

  hatred of

  in India

  and Japan

  Opium Wars with China

  Royal Navy

  Sykes-Picot Agreement

  Buddhism

  in China

  from India to Japan

  shared legacy

  Burke, Edmund

  Burma

  al-Bustani, Butrus

  Cahid, Hüseyin

  Chatterji, Bankim Chandra

  Chen Duxiu

  Chiang Kai-shek

  China

  anti-Manchuists

  army modernization

  Boxer Rising

  and Britain

  Buddhism

  civil service exams

  civil war

  Communist Party

  Confucianism see Confucianism

  cultural heritage

  early Western contact limited

  economic policy

  economic strength

  education

  environmental issues

  exiles in Japan

  in First World War

  foreign debts

  Great Leap Forward

  Hong Kong

  Hundred Day reforms

  India viewed as lost country

  inequality in

  Korean war


  Mao regime

  Marxism-Leninism

  May Fourth Movement/New Culture

  Middle Kingdom

  modernization

  Nationalist Party (Guomindang)

  New Youth magazine

  opium trade

  Opium Wars

  Paris Peace Conference

  political reform theories

  Qing Empire decline

  radical nationalism

  railways

  revolution (1911)

  rural population

  Shandong annexation

  Sino-Japanese war

  Social Darwinist struggle

  Summer Palace destruction

  Tagore’s visit

  US Open Door policy

  warlords

  Western science

  worker-students in France

  see also Kang Youwei; Liang Qichao

  Churchill, Randolph

  Cixi, Dowager Empress

  Clemenceau, Georges

  colonialism

  see also decolonization

  Comintern

  Comte, Auguste

  Confucianism

 

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