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The review essay concerns the book: Bhushan and Garfield, Minds Without Fear. The book, in my view, accomplishes well the task of providing a philosophically coherent interpretation of the main episodes of the modern Indian intellectual tradition. In this essay, I describe the importance of the work and comment on the cosmopolitan nature of the period of Indian thought under consideration.

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  1. Bhushan & Garfield, Minds Without Fear, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.

  2. For the poem, see Krishna Dutta & Andrew Robinson (eds.), Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998, p. 356.

  3. Tagore’s poem “Meghdūt” is famous in this regard. For a formidable English translation of this poem see, Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems, (trans. William Radice). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985. pp. 50–52.

  4. See Minds Without Fear, p.74.

  5. See Jonardon Ganeri, The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450–1700, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011. For Bhushan & Garfield’s discussion of these points see, Minds Without Fear, pp. 20–38.

  6. Michel Foucault, “What is Enlightenment” in Paul Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader, New York, Pantheon Books, p. 39.

  7. Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Rammohun Roy’ in Sisir Kumar Das (ed.), English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, p. 668

  8. Sanjay Subhrahmanyam, ‘Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia.’ Modern Asian Studies, 31 (3), 748.

  9. H-G Gadamer, Truth and Method, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, p. 315.

  10. Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” in Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings (eds.) Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, p. 391.

  11. Quoted by Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’, trans. Chris Turner. London Verso, p. 41. On Benjamin and cosmoplitanism see Saranindranath Tagore, “Benjamin in Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy” in Sugata Bose, Kris Manjapra (eds.), Cosmopolitan Thought Zones, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 37–57.

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Tagore, S. Comments on Bhushan & Garfield, Minds Without Fear. SOPHIA 58, 19–24 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-018-0702-5

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