The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t10.9

c14.s9.t10.9

It is virtually the analysis of neighbours as presented by the Maratha *Rājanīti* of the early eighteenth century that we find in the modern theorist Stier-Somlo when he says in *Politik* (1926) that the states of our environment are bound to find themselves in eternal competition, rivalry, struggle, and at any rate, in the midst of conflicts or clashes of interests. The considerations of high “ethical culture” are according to him out of place in such a world. This circumstance compels the *Staatsmoral* (state or political morality) to be entirely different from the individual morality (p. 122).