Recent events around the world have shaken old certainties. Questions are being asked about the survival of the Liberal Order, which has been dominant for over fifty years. The election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote have alarmed many commentators. In India, the arrival of NarendraModi at the head of the ‘Hindu nationalist’ Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 has raised fear similar to those in Trump’s case. In this perceptive account, Meghnad Desai opens up the debate beyond the West and looks at parallels between Modi and Trump as two outsiders who broke through the barriers to reach the top. He analyses Asia’s challenge to Western hegemony and asks if the conventional wisdom about the hegemony of free trade liberalism needs re-examination. He peers into the future with the questions: Will the Liberal Order survive, collapse or mutate? Is the world at a cusp? Is history– the old saga of blood, sweat and tears– about to resume its course?