The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.30

c15.s1.30

In the same key has been composed practically everything that Sorokin has to say about the Indian culture-systems. "India is the country,"¹⁰ we are told, "whose socio-political regime and aristocracy have been the decentralized theocracy par excellence." Quotations about the Hindu castes, *dharma*, and especially about the Brāhmaṇas have been offered in order to "corroborate" this thesis. The treatment is conventional. It is to be noted, further, that in this instance as in others there is hardly any logical distinction between the statement and the alleged "corroboration," because the statement has not been advanced on the strength of any inductive study or analysis of factual data. The quotations alone constitute virtually both the statement or the thesis as well as the corroboration.