The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t9.1

c14.s9.t9.1

It is worth while to pause a moment here. Rāmachandrapant is evidently aware that the "dangerousness" of these *Topīkārs* lies in their "strength" in "navy, guns and ammunition." Had he cared to go into details in his treatise he would most probably have admitted that in these "industrial" and "military" techniques, at any rate, the *Topīkārs* were relatively stronger than and hence to that extent superior to the Marathas and perhaps other Indians. During the early years of the eighteenth century, then, the consciousness of *Topīkār* superiority in certain items of positivism was not absent among the thinking sections of the Indian people.