The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.37

c15.s2.37

This dualistic characteristic of Indian national culture in its socio-political aspects, viz., the super-imposition, upon a fundamental bed-rock of uniformity, of a diversity adjusted to the conditions of varying localities and races—has been also pointed out in my work on a socio-religious festival called *gambhīrā* connected with the Śaiva-cum-Śāktaism of Bengal.¹⁴ In fact, the diversity that characterises the customs and festivals, hymns and rituals of the people in different parts of India in the self-same socio-religious institution is so great to-day that it is often difficult to perceive the unity underlying them.