The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.6

c15.s1.6

This statement presents in a nutshell the philosophy of traditional indology as popularized by Max Müller and his successors until today. And it is to furnish correctives to this kind of indological researches that the first volume of the *Positive Background of Hindu Sociology* was published during 1912-1914. The ideas of the *Positive Background* have had some impacts on subsequent indology as described *supra* pp. 27-49 of the present work. It has been pointed out also (pp. 49-51) that traditional indology is not altogether defunct but is surviving in a palpable manner. In so far as Sorokin has considered it worth while to depend on traditional indology in his interpretations of world-culture his encyclopædic three-volume work referred to above is to that extent to be appraised as another specimen of this survival.