"Mithi Mukherjee makes a compelling case for Asianism to be recognized as a key element in India’s anticolonial struggle. Exploring the mutually reinforcing strands of cultural Asianism and geopolitical Asianism, she brilliantly shows how both nonviolent and revolutionary Indian resistance to British imperial rule forged broader solidarities under the sign of Asia."—Sugata Bose, author of Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century
"Mukherjee has skillfully constructed a fascinating transnational history of Asianism as conceived by Indian thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In rich detail and with great clarity, Mukherjee's riveting study highlights the philosophical and cultural ties that made Asia one in the eyes of many of its leaders, a sense of commonality open to the possibility of political solidarity as well."—Anand Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
“In this insightful and essential study, Mithi Mukherjee shifts attention from the internal dynamics of Indian nationalism to its global and particularly Asian context. Across these networks of labor, intellectuals, and ideologies, Mukherjee reveals how transnational movements and civilizational discourses shaped India’s path to independence. By centering developments often dismissed as peripheral, she redefines the story of decolonization and recovers the overlooked figures who were instrumental to it.”—Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University
"By uncovering the much-neglected role of Asianism in modern India and providing new perspectives on well-known Indian freedom fighters such as Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, and Subhas Chandra Bose, Mithi Mukherjee’s book opens exciting new vistas in transnational Asian studies."—Viren Murthy, author of Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution
"Mukherjee provides a powerful study of transnational Asian political thought inside Indian nationalism, most welcome at a time when transnational Asia is again on the rise and studies of its many histories provide antidotes against ethnonationalist isolationism."—David Ludden, Emeritus Professor of History, New York University
