A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent\'s rise to dominance.
Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkers--Tagore.
A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent\'s rise to dominance