The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.3

c12.3

It was a new India, this India of the Guptas—a new stage, new actors, and what is more, a new outlook. Extensive deplomatic relations with foreign powers, military renown of *digvijaya* at home, overthrow of the "barbarians" on the western borderland, international trade, maritime activity, expansion of the motherland, missionising abroad, the blending of races by which the flesh and blood of the population was almost renewed, and social transformation as epoch-making as the first Aryanization itself—all these ushered in the fourth and fifth centuries of the Christian era a thorough rejuvenation and a complete overhauling of the old order of things in Hindustan.