The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.11

c5.s4.11

One of Sorokin's inductive generalizations in regard to the vitality and health of *élites* is as follows: "The leaders and the higher classes of almost all societies seem to have been on the average superior physically to the lower classes." The care given to physical health in connection with the training of Indian Kṣatriyas as well as Brāhmaṇas was according to him a universal feature in the ancient world and is universal even today (pp. 269, 270, 272, 279).