The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.16

c15.s1.16

Besides, Indian writers of the history of Indian philosophical thought labour under a peculiar misconception. They are generally prone to believing that old Indian philosophy was *higher than* or *superior to* the philosophies of the West, ancient, medieval and modern. As a rule, they believe also that this superiority consists in being non-materialistic and anti-materialistic. It is for them almost a part of life's *credo*, therefore, to accentuate the non-materialistic aspects of some of the Indian texts. At the same time they make it a point to cultivate a thorough-going blindness, at any rate academically, to all the million facts and ideas of materialism in the actual life and thought of the Indians through the millenniums.