A new book by India-born and London-based writer, Pankaj Misra, explores, as a review in The Guardian says, 19th century Asia's intellectual response to western imperialism.
The "revolt" in question isn't a military or political rebellion per se, but a cultural one. It implies that at a point in time and history, the East, especially the Eastern elite, found the crass materialism and the vulgarity of the white barbarians quite revolting.
Misra's book traces the evolution of that revolt (a rough Bengali transliteration would be "ghenna") into a firm intellectual response.
Promises to be an engaging read.
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