Third Worldism, Afro-Asianism, Non-Alignment and their associated projects were not simply diplomatic agendas on the international stage, they were cultural and epistemological projects tied to smaller, older, geographies of significance. Scholars labored in their service. Beyond the politicians’ conferences, whether Bandung (1955), or Belgrade (1961), or Cairo (1964), events which receive the bulk of scholarly interest on non-alignment’s trajectory and significance, non-alignment occurred at a different scale. Scrutinizing non-alignment’s intellectual history can reveal forms of knowledge that can be salvaged from non-alignment’s irretrievable political past. Rather than simply recount the events of non-alignment—the grand accumulation of solidarity, the limits of which was subsequently revealed—it may be prudent to bring our attention to the ideas of non-alignment. To begin accounting for the content and conditions of non-aligned thought, this paper narrates a history of Arab and Indian intellectuals thinking together in the second half of the twentieth century through their travels, polemics, and scholarship. I focus principally on the work of the Lebanese scholar-diplomat Clovis Maksoud (1926–2016), the most articulate Arab theorist of positive neutrality and non-alignment. In addition to his significant theoretical ouvre and voluminous occasional writings, I examine the rich cultural and social center which was the scene of Maksoud's thought in New Delh, where he was the Arab League's representative in the 1960s.