The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.2

c13.2

Economics, politics, jurisprudence and sociology as developed on Indian soil have grown in intimate *liaison* with the exact sciences. Their relations, first, with philosophy and metaphysics, and secondly, with *belles lettres* are equally profound. These interactions are to be seen as much in the Vedic culture-complex as in the Śākyan *milieu* (*c* 600 B.C.). They are equally manifest in the evolution of Hindu positivism from, say, Kauṭalya to Kālidāsa, or from Pāṇini to Varāhamihira (*c* B.C. 300-600 A.C.). The impact of "science," philosophy and literature on the "social" *vidyās* or *śāstras* as well as of the latter on the former, in one word, the "functional" relations characterize the subsequent epochs as well of cultural expansion in India.