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The Asian Dream: Sugata Bose

Historian Sugata Bose in his new book titled ‘Asia After Europe Imagining A Continent In The Long Twentieth Century’ (HarperCollins) says that the ‘Asian Dream’ remained unfulfilled because of the two major events which unfolded in the last century. First, the Japan’s invasion of China in 1937; second, China’s invasion of India in 1962. “Japan’s invasion of China undermined the idea of Asia as never before,” Bose write. He writes that legendary poet Rabindranath Tagore was dismayed because of Japanese invasion and in his correspondence in 1937 with the Japanese poet Noguchi -- who had visited him 1935 -- revealed the chasm in their interpretations of the Sino-Japanese conflict. The author writes that although India sent medical mission to China as a gesture of Asian solidarity in the face of Asian aggression but this was the first major crack in the Asian cohesion which did not heal. Bose writes that during the 1910s, the South Asian poet-philosophers Rabindranath Tagore and Muhammad Iqbal had been shocked by the carnage triggered by rival European nationalism. The decade of 1930s showed that Asia was by no means immune from nationalism virus. He writes that one of the most dramatic manifestations of this trend (in early 1930s between Japan, China, India, Vietnam and other Asian countries a bond was formed based on mutual respect) was the dissolution of the bonds of the much-trumpeted brotherhood between India and China that culminated in a brief but bitter border war between the two countries in the autumn of 1962. “Yet even at that moment of rivalry and conflict between Asian nation-states, an intellectual quest began to discover what a Japanese scholar of modern Chinese literature, Takeuchi Yoshimi, evocatively called in 1960 lecture ‘Asia as method’,” Bose notes. Given all the faultlines between the Asian nations, still the Asian economic interdependence has increased rapidly between 1979 and 2019 with East, Southeast, and South Asia conducting more than half of their international trade among themselves in the 2010s as compared to one-third in the 1980s. “Cultural flows have been enhanced contributing to fresh synergies in the domains of Asian arts and humanities, the pace of intra-Asian migration quickened with people on the move across the vast continent in numbers unimaginable between the 1940 and the 1980s,” Bose writes. He writes that the dream of Asian universalism had been shattered in the twentieth century by the conflict between Japan and China. “Its fate in the twenty-first century will depend to a significant extent on the ability of China and Inda to peacefully manage their simultaneous rise,” he writes. He writes that both Asian giants are beset with internal problems of inequity and the ability to address those may be just as important as the state of their mutual relations. “The future of Muslim Asia will be shaped by efforts in working out a symbiosis between Islam and democracy,” Bose notes. He says that the experiment with democracy in Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia, expecting that the Indonesian centre has conceded autonomy and applied the healing touch in the region like Aceh.