The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s7.1

c11.s7.1

The present writer notes with interest that since he raised the cry against Max Müller's over-emphasis on metaphysics and religion in the survey of Hindu culture scholars at home and abroad have cared to turn to its "positive" and secular aspects. Breloer also observes that in Max Müller's presentation the diversities in the tendencies of the Indians were exceedingly underestimated.³¹ This does not however enable Breloer to fully realize the volume and weight of the non-religious and non-philosophical strands of Hindu thought. He cannot get away from the fact that, on the whole, Indian literature was maintained and cultivated almost exclusively by the Brāhmaṇs, and that the entire literature with which he has to deal for his researches is somehow religious.