Daya Krishna’s excursion to that conference on the philosophy of religion is worth pondering; philosophers from the former colonies of his generation were certainly welcome, in Oxford or Cambridge or London, but the expectation was that gifted young thinkers from the East would benefit from exposure to the influence of Analytic philosophy and carry it back to their own countries in an early version of post-colonial soft power. There would have been little expectation that the influence would go in the other direction. We have to imagine a lone Indian at this symposium, at which the cultural co-ordinates within which the questions were framed were remote from those of the Indian traditions.