The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s6.2

c5.s6.2

According to Masson-Oursel, scholars ignore much the fact that India was one of the greatest maritime and colonising powers of the past (*une des plus grandes puissances maritimes et colonisatrices du passé*). The extension of Indianism is described as a "mighty radiance" (*puissant rayonnement*), of which the area extended from Madagascar to Tonkin (pp. 128-129).