[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914) › c13.2 # The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.2 The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.2 - **Language:** English ### [c13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.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. - [Previous: c12.s13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c12.s13.14) - [Next: c13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c13.3) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c13) ## Cites (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi-school.astadhyayi) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c13.2) · Pramāṇa