The fall and rise of Asia

Book review of 'Asia Reborn: A Continent Rises from the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism'

Asia Reborn 

A Continent Rises from the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism

Prasenjit K Basu

Aleph; 680 pages; Rs 1,999

This weighty book describes in great detail the history of the colonisation of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia by England, France, Russia, Spain, Holland, Portugal, and United States of America, the latecomer and principal coloniser and exploiter of Asia in the twentieth century, and by one Asian country, imperial Japan. The major theme of this book is the long colonial shadow over Asia and the anti-colonial liberation movements. Author Prasenjit K Basu appropriately describes these independence