The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.19

c15.s2.19

It will be noticed that, from the standpoint of content or substance, most of the categories of Hindu political philosophy have analogues in those of European and that it may be reasonable to connect even modern and contemporary theories with the findings of the old Hindus. In so far as political and social phenomena, or for that matter, all mental and moral or human phenomena are universal and eternal, it is possible to detect Platonic, Aristotelian, Patristic or Macchiavellian strands even in the philosophical discussions of contemporary problems. Besides, some of the economic and social institutions of today can be traced back to the Middle Ages for their crude and even semi-developed beginnings. It is from this angle of vision that we can appreciate the attempts of Sorokin's *Contemporary Sociological Theories* to trace virtually every "ism" of today back not only to medieval literary documents but to the most primitive records of human thought.