The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.13

c15.s1.13

The present work will serve to indicate that it is not necessary to be specially non-Brahmanic, anti-Hindu, socialistic or Marxistic, as hinted at by Sorokin, in order to be convinced of the "sensatism", positivism or materialistic strands of Indian culture through the ages. Nor should it be necessary to employ a psychological or sociological microscope in order to detect the traces of positivism, few and far between, in some of the alleged "periods of transition or crisis" in Indian history. Hindu positivism or sensatism does not require any special pleading. Every student of the cultural and sociological realities will find that in every epoch and in every region positivism has furnished the very foundations of Indian creativeness and *élan de la vie*. It is not possible here to go over again the entire ground of the three volumes of the *Positive Background*.