The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.27

c15.s2.27

We have made a bibliographical survey, so to say, of the leading literary documents chiefly in Sanskrit and to a certain extent also in the Indian vernaculars,—with a view to exhibit the positivistic, "sensate," secular and humane ideologies of the Hindus from the earliest times down to Rammohun. It has been our chief concern to focus the attention on the treatises of politics or the political sections of social encyclopædias. The treatment is by no means exhaustive. But we must not forget that all this survey has a particular aim, namely, that of furnishing us with hints as to the place-value and time-value, i.e., the *locale* and the age of the *Śukranīti*, the treatise in whose fortunes we are directly interested for the time being.