The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t4.6

c14.s8.t4.6

It is in the perspective of these Hindu-Moslem culture-contacts, extensive and profound as they were, that we are to appraise the attempts of Śivāji to hold forth as a Hindu monarch, nay, as a Hindu nationalist bent upon reviving, or rather providing a fresh fillip to, the institutions and *mores* of Hindu culture. An important item as well as evidence of Śivāji's cultural nationalism is to be found in the very coronation itself.¹¹