The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t4.53

c14.s9.t4.53

As a rationalist, as a "protestant," and as a humanist Abul Fazl has served to liberate the Moslem mind. The enfranchisement of the intelligence which was cunsummated in the Christian world by the Renaissance was accomplished in Moslem India by the author of the *Ain-i-Akbari*, the same enfranchisement which was to attack the Hindu mind two centuries later in and through Rammohun Roy. For the students of world culture in political philosophy it is of importance to observe that some of the formative forces in Abul Fazl's toleration, humanism, eclectic approach to the things of matter and spirit, as well as positivism were furnished by the Hindu *Manu Samhitā* and *Mahābhārata*.