Sen and Tsui have put together a fascinating collection of essays exploring lesser known facets of engagement during a key period in India-China interactions. The collective effect is to push the reader to get past reductive and easy framings of how two societies interacted. Similarly in China, Republican reformers in the early 20th century would look to push against what they saw as entrenched feudal systems. Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s; Edited by Tansen Sen, Brian Tsui, Oxford University Press, ₹1,495. Tea-War: A History of Capitalism in China and India; Andrew B. Liu, Yale University Press, $50.

Source: The Hindu May 08, 2021 10:42 UTC