A handful of conventional narratives dominate the Western world's view of Indian philosophy: while some commentators cling to the view that India's pristine philosophical heritage has been preserved in Sanskrit texts, others dismiss pre-colonial traditions as 'non-philosophical'. Philosophy, on this latter view, did not arrive in India until the onset of modernity under British colonialism, and whatever philosophical insights earlier traditions may have had, can only be unearthed through analysis from within the dominant Anglophone philosophical tradition. Yet, nothing could be further from the truth -- or so argue the authors of 'Minds Without Fear', Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield. Epistemology -- to mention just one example -- was not transported to Indian shores by the ships of the East India Company, but was explored in intellectual communities and movements such as the Navya-Nyaya long before colonialism took hold. And the discomfort with using the English language after colonialism, as expressed by, say, Rabindranath Tagore, does not reflect any incompatibility of Indian thinking with philosophical traditions, but instead reflects the distrust of a colonial mindset that gave rise to Thomas Macaulay's infamous remark 'that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia'. In offering a historical explanation for this discomfort, Bhushan and Garfield place their philosophical protagonists in a broader, political context, while also making a case for the richness and intellectual depth of what they aptly call the 'Indian renaissance'. By deftly combining criticism of established narratives with a positive case for the intellectual value of Indian philosophy, Bhushan and Garfield -- argues BRB reviewer Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach -- succeed in nudging their readers to seek a truly free knowledge, a knowledge which honestly faces up to its social grounding and which confronts the prejudices that stand in the way of truly globalizing our philosophical thinking.