The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s2.9

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In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Hindu positivism was strong enough to express itself in the different regions of India in a manner such as might enable the people to energize in a spirit of hopefulness. The old texts were reinterpreted to assimilate new races, castes and creeds. Hinduism proved to be a going concern even under the conditions of the first two or three centuries of Moslem politics. And in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Hindu positivism was once more in a flourishing condition. The age of Kavi-Kaṅkaṇa, the Bengali poet who wrote the *Chaṇḍī-maṅgala* in 1589, and Tulsīdās (1532-1624) who completed the Hindi *Rāmāyaṇa* about the same time is, as an era of the expansion and democratization of Hindu culture, not to be beaten by any epoch of Indian social achievements. Along with these two senior contemporaries of Northern India Tukārām (1608-1649), the Maratha writer of *abhangs*, constituted a triumvirate of extraordinary importance in the annals of Hindu humanism during the period of Indo-Moghul Renaissance.