The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c3.29

c3.29

These two series of works in Bengali and English as well as the teaching of modern history and political science at Calcutta and cultural activities in the villages of Bengal associated with the District Council of National Education, Malda, constituted the intellectual and social atmosphere in the midst of which the English translation of *Śukranīti* was undertaken by Professor Sarkar in 1910. The translation was ready by 1912 and published at Allahabad in the *Sacred Books of the Hindus* Series during 1912-14 in several fasciculi. The Introduction to this translation, namely, the *Positive Background*, Book I., was also ready by 1913 and published in several *fasciculi*, coming out finally in 1914, previous to his departure from India on world-tour early in April of the same year.