The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t4.27

c14.s9.t4.27

The student of comparative politics will be justified to go farther. In so far as the general, philosophical or theoretical ideas are concerned, the *Ain-i-Akbari* is to be treated virtually as a Persianized edition, so to say, of a Sanskrit *nītiśāstra*. It is within the philosophical framework of a Hindu treatise on politics that Abul Fazl has put in the statistics and administrative details of Akbar's Empire. It not only preserves the Hindu tradition by describing Sanskrit literature and Hindu philosophical ideas in Book IV. but is a document of the most profound assimilation of Hindu culture by a philosophically minded Mussalman.