The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s5.18

c11.s5.18

Breloer is careful to point out that one should not read modern viewpoints into the concept of Hindu *Planwirtschaft* (planned economy). But all the same, he would not like that this special feature of Indian economy should be ignored.²⁹ It does not escape him that the "ideology of modern socialistic origin in the interpretation of ancient conditions is a disturbing guest." The difficulties of comparison are not ignored. But he does not object to the use of expressions which enables a certain world of ideas that lies near to us in point of time to be brought into the neighbourhood of equalization or similarity. This sort of tentative efforts at establishing what may be called rough equations between the nearest approximations (or approaches to similarity) is certainly the only course open in a scientific investigation of values.