The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.59

c5.59

It is to furnish such *sûtras*, formulae and conventions of Eur-American and Asian indology with correct perspectives that the chapters of the first edition of Vol. I. of the *Positive Background of Hindu Sociology* as well as of the *Folk-Element in Hindu Culture* were published in Indian journals during 1910-14. It was the special object of the *Positive Background* to rescue Hindu culture from such one-sided and monistic interpretations whether they came from indologists, sociologists, geographers, climatologists, ethnologists, regionalists, political ideologists and economists. At the same time attention was drawn to the universal or cosmopolitan facts and tendencies in Hindu societal and ideological development. That the processes and forces in Indian social life are not peculiar to the regions, climates or races and religions of India but thoroughly "human, all too human" was the one clear conclusion of these investigations, comparative in essence as they were. The fundamental uniformity in the "world-view" (*Weltanschauung*) between India and Eur-America was the ideological atmosphere of the researches carried on during those years.