About the Book: To Raise a Fallen People: How 19th Century Indians Saw Their
World and Shaped Ours
Should India strive to be a great power or a moral one? Should it protect its
markets or support free trade? Should religious or ethnic considerations
influence its diplomacy or not? Should it accept Western values or promote its
own civilization? As India rises, these questions have come to dominate public
discussion. But few realize how deep the fault lines run..
In this groundbreaking anthology, Rahul Sagar shows that contemporary debates on
the role that India should play on the world stage actually originated in the
nineteenth century. This