The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s4.1

c11.s4.1

In Breloer's interpretation the Kauṭalyan state follows a store or reserve-economy as its most old and original duty. Further, it receives its business resources in kind. The dimensions of planned economy resulting from this are so considerable for the whole economic structure that the statal economy becomes by itself the determining factor in economic life. All the same, the state seeks to evoke private initiative. This kind of "state-planning" was not due to any ideologies or experiments, says Breloer, but owed its origin to the solution of a gigantic problem. That problem, according to him, "remained unknown to the West until most recent times." It consisted in the provision of guarantee for the barest lives of India's untold millions and the conservation of her space in the interest of food supply.²⁰