Imagining India in the world

The book does much to underline the fact that there is more to Indian thinking than what has been discussed in the popular writings

To Raise a Fallen People: How 19th-Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours

Author: Rahul Sagar

Publisher: Juggernaut Books

Pages: 312

Price: Rs 799

With the rise of India as an important regional and global player in the 21st century there has been a need to understand whether the country ever had its own understanding of its geographical and geo-political locations. Much has been written and spoken about the ideas of non-alignment, non-violence, and strategic autonomy. But most of these ideas that are credited to Indian thinkers have emerged during or after the independence movement. This gives the impression that colonial India generally