In recent years, global intellectual history has emerged as one of the most dynamic academic fields, taking the study of political thought beyond bounded area studies concerns. Simultaneously, the charge of Eurocentrism has occasionally been levelled against the field. This roundtable intervenes within these debates by going beyond conventional frames of Europe-to-non-Europe conceptual diffusion and translation, and by centring, instead, vocabularies of Asian origin which migrated between South and Southeast Asia. By focusing on actors, conjunctures, and itineraries traversing India, Nepal, Thailand, Bali, Java, and beyond, this roundtable foregrounds trans-Asian intellectual fords and their role in the emergence of modern globalized political thought, around issues of sovereignty, labour and political economy, legal theology, colonialism and decolonization, ‘humanity’, and more.