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Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist known for his works on politics, history, and culture. His writings often explore the intellectual and moral consequences of colonialism and globalization.
Known for: Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
In this sweeping work of intellectual history, Pankaj Mishra explores the roots of the contemporary global wave of anger, resentment, and populism. He traces these emotions back to the Enlightenment a...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
This book explores how Asian intellectuals and reformers responded to Western imperialism from the nineteenth century onward, tracing the ideological and political movements that reshaped Asia. Mishra...
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The Enlightenment and the Promise of Progress
The Enlightenment was a dazzling explosion of human ambition. Philosophers extolled reason as the torch that would illuminate all darkness. For thinkers like Voltaire, Diderot, and Kant, to be modern meant to be free—from superstition, from tyranny, and from ignorance. They imagined societies govern...
From Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Rousseau and the Origins of Resentment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau stands as modernity’s first intimate critic. He saw through the glittering rhetoric of progress and recognized its psychological cost. His concept of *amour-propre*—self-regard born from comparison with others—describes the emotional mechanism of envy, humiliation, and resentme...
From Age of Anger: A History of the Present
The Fall of Empires
The nineteenth century marked the high tide of European imperial expansion. For many Asian societies, centuries of indigenous political, cultural, and economic systems crumbled under the pressure of technological and military superiority. Britain’s domination stretched from India to the Malay Penins...
From From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Islamic Modernism
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani stands as one of the earliest figures in this intellectual awakening. A restless traveler across the Muslim world—from Iran to Egypt, from Istanbul to Paris—he became a prophetic voice calling for unity and resistance. I portray him as an itinerant philosopher caught between ...
From From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
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Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist known for his works on politics, history, and culture. His writings often explore the intellectual and moral consequences of colonialism and globalization. He contributes regularly to major publications such as The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Ne...
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Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist known for his works on politics, history, and culture. His writings often explore the intellectual and moral consequences of colonialism and globalization. He contributes regularly to major publications such as The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The Ne...
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist known for his works on politics, history, and culture. His writings often explore the intellectual and moral consequences of colonialism and globalization. He contributes regularly to major publications such as The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books.
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