The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s3.2

c14.s3.2

Thus considered, the history of Hindu social evolution can furnish evidences of socialism and democracy, understood in a general sense, such as have been analyzed by the Italian sociologist Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis in his *Socialismo Antico* (1889).⁷ The study of "economic ideals" as distinguished from economic realities is the subject matter of this treatise. And India is exhibited from the standpoint of the ideas of "social utopia" which came to evolve in its literature and folk-tradition.