The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t4.4

c14.s8.t4.4

In Śivāji's politics are therefore to be seen both these strands, Hindu and Moslem. He is a representative not only of the tribal contacts and caste-fusions so common to the Hindu culture of all ages, but at the same time a specimen and embodiment of Hindu-Moslem cultural *rapprochement*. Like Abul Fazl the Hinduized Moslem, Śivāji was to a certain extent a Moslemized Hindu, both being true indices to the Indo-Saracenic Renaissance of the times. Śivāji's sympathy with Moslems in the practice of their religion and patronage of Moslem mosques is worthy of mention in this connection.¹⁰