The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s1.9

c10.s1.9

And here it is interesting to call attention to the remarks of a Belgian scholar.⁴ "We have enough evidence to the effect," says, he, that in spite of the horse sacrifice, the *Upaniṣads*, Buddhism, caste and the Brāhmaṇa India was in many respects a country like all other countries, very living and progressive (*un pays comme tous les autres très vivant et progressif*), charmed with arts, festivals, literature, not morose, joking, occasionally Voltairian, easily amused and very entertaining.''