The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s7.1

c5.s7.1

These instances of the recognition of the positive background of Hindu culture by indologists should not lead one to surmise that *orientalisme* or indology has been finally emancipated from the sway of monistic, one-sided and unscientific approaches or conclusions. Traditional Orientalism has not yet been subverted but is still quite in evidence. Works like Betty Heimann's *Studien zur Eigenart indischen Denkens* (Tübingen 1930) and Albert Schweitzer's *Die Weltanschauung der indischen Denker* (Munich 1935) are contemporary specimens of conventional indology such as was popular in the nineteenth century. These survivals are not few and far between.