Further Thoughts about Colonial Subjectivity: a Reply to our Critics Nalini Bhushan 1 & Jay L. Garfield 1,2 # Springer Nature B.V. 2019 Keywords Indian philosophy . Colonial India . Cosmopolitanism . Renaissance . Subjectivity . Sheer Gil . Bhattacharyya . Mukerji We thank our four critics for their careful and generous attention to our book. We have learned a great deal from considering their views, and we are pleased that the book at least stimulates some creative thought about how to conceptualize the Indian renais- sance and the work that emerges therefrom. We are intrigued by the diversity of contexts in which our readers place our text, and we note with surprise and pleasure that the context in which one reads the book inclines the reader to see different kinds of problems. Prof. Tagore reads Minds Without Fear as a hermeneutical text and sets it in the context of work by Foucault, Gadamer, and Benjamin. As a result, he takes us to task for taking the idea of renaissance too much for granted, at the expense of attention to cosmopolitanism and to power. Prof. Dalmiya, on the other hand, reads Minds Without Fear as an essay in postcolonial theory alongside the work of Sudipta Kaviraj. She also worries about our uncritical attitude towards renaissance, but for different reasons, suggesting that the colonial situation makes genuine renaissance impossible (we imagine she would say the same about the cosmopolitanism with which Tagore suggests that we replace the idea of renaissance). Prof. Hatcher reads our book as a history of Indian politics and religion. He criticizes our inattention to larger historical context. Finally, Prof. Anand sees our book as introducing ideas in analytical philos- ophy. He takes this as a springboard for bringing Bhattacharyya and Mukerji into dialogue with contemporary philosophy of mind, something we do not do. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-019-0705-x * Jay L. Garfield jgarfield@smith.edu Nalini Bhushan nbhushan@smith.edu 1 Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA 2 Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, USA Sophia (2019) 58:49–53 Published online: 16 March 2019