The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.t3.2

c11.s1.t3.2

These studies, intimately associated as they were with the work of Baman Das Basu of the Panini Office (Allahabad), editor of *The Sacred Books of the Hindus Series* and part-author of *Indian Medicinal Plants*, were carried on in the main in an atmosphere of co-operative research at Calcutta.¹ To this research-complex belonged also Radhakumud Mookerji's studies in Hindu shipping and the geographical unity of India under the inspiration of Satis Chandra Mukerjee of the Dawn Society (1903-06) and the National Council of Education, as well as Narendra Nath Law's investigations into the *Arthaśāstra* and Kashi Prasad Jayaswal's papers on Hindu coronation rituals and other aspects of Hindu polity (1911-13). That was the atmosphere of what may be described as an almost homogeneous and undifferentiated, although entirely informal, "school" of Hindu culture and social sciences at Calcutta. So far as the Kauṭalya question was concerned, that "school", like Shamasastry, considered the Indian tradition as but verified by the discovery of the *Arthaśāstra*.