The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t10.8

c14.s9.t10.8

The words of Frederick the Great himself in his *Considerations sur l’état present du corps politique de l’Europe* (Considerations on the present condition of the body politic of Europe, 1737) would be congenial to the Maratha *Amātya*. “The politics of the great monarchies was always the same,” says the Prussian monarch; “Their fundamental principle consisted in seizing everything in order to expand oneself ceaselessly, and their wisdom in anticipating the tricks of their enemies and to play the finest play.”