The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s17.6

c10.s17.6

The *Studien* contains such generalizations from beginning to end. That even in 1930 a student of culture can proceed to work in this manner indicates how powerfully the traditional *orientalisme* has misled the scholarship of Indianists in the directions of subjective, one-sided and monistic prejudices bearing on the East and the West. Another piece of "conventional" indology, weak as it is in positive historical data and cultural perspectives, is Albert Schweitzer's *Die Weltanschauung der indischen Denker* or "The World-View of Indian Thinkers"