The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s6.1

c11.s6.1

At one point, while speaking of gilds, Breloer makes the categorical statement that the concept of professional freedom (*Gewerbe-freiheit*) is utterly unknown (*völlig unbekannt*).³⁰ At another point, however, we are told that the state planning does not function in any way as a disturbing factor because as a result of long experience "private initiative" was afforded the "widest space," scope or chance. Further, says he, it is not the regulations of planned economy but the incorporation of precautionary measures that furnishes the practical item in the Kauṭalyan system of economic control.