The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t7.63

c14.s9.t7.63

The concept of unification of all the groups, communities or castes within the race or the people speaking the same language is a brilliant contribution of Rāmdās to Hindu politics. He is to be appraised as perhaps the first conscious exponent of linguistic nationalism in India. In the annals of *artha*, *dharma* and *nīti śāstras* down to the middle of the seventeenth century Hindu political philosophy is hardly in a position to produce a single *sūtra* in this strain. With Rāmdās Hindu *rājanīti* makes its *début* in an altogether novel domain.