The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.2

c14.2

During the period from the beginnings of the fourteenth to the end of the eighteenth century Hindu culture has to orient itself to two sets of foreign cultural agencies. The first are furnished by the Moslem *milieu*, and the second by the European, especially, the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British. The seventeenth century may be taken to be the real starting point of the influences from the European side. The virility of Hindu positivism is as manifest in these two milieux as in the previous ones.