The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.12

c15.s1.12

In the estimation of Sorokin's indologists as well as the philosophers and sociologists dependent on such indologists materialism "never gained any important place in the literature of India", "nor had any great influence", "had a comparatively unimportant place in the philosophic thought of India", "hardly ever became a strong or dominant force", and has been "uninfluential in Hindu thought throughout the three thousand years". But those scholars who are not obsessed by the prejudices of colonialism and Orientalism as described in the *Futurism of Young Asia* and are prepared to study materialism ("sensatism") in those Hindu documents (*kāma*, *dharma*, *artha*, *nīti*, *vārttā*, *śilpa*, *vāstu* and allied literature) where materiaism is naturally to be expected, as for instance, in the main body of the present work will have to be forced to the conclusion that materialism first, materialism second, and materialism always has been the foundation and the background of Hindu civilization for six thousand years from Mohenjo Daro to the age of Rāmakriṣṇa-Vivekānanda.