The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.8

c15.s1.8

The fallacy of the Max Müller school of indology has already been discussed in other places (pp. 17-23). The first chapter of the *Futurism of Young Asia*, referred to there may be mentioned over again. It should be observed, further, that traditional indology, *in so far as it has at all cared to study Hindu materialism*, has, in the first place, tried to search for it in those documents, — “ideational”, to use Sorokin’s expression, — where materialism is hardly to be found. And in the second place, it has as a rule systematically overlooked, ignored or minimized just those tons of documents which constitute nothing but materialism, pure and undefiled. Traditional indology has ever been supremely indifferent to and has systematically exhibited a lack of interest in the “positivistic strands of Hindu literature”, such as those referred to, for instance, in pp. 12-13.