The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c6.s3.4

c6.s3.4

Leaving aside for the present, therefore, the most vexed of all questions in Indian history, the determination of the personality, identity and individuality of our author, we propose to investigate the physical and social influences that are likely to have contributed to the *Gestalt* or form of *Śukranīti*, as available from a study of the data furnished by it. This investigation is really a study of the education received by our author himself, and of the literature drawn upon by him in the preparation of his work, in one word, a presentation of the whole culture embodied in, and pre-supposed by, *Śukranīti*. A study of this culture and the "relativity" of *Śukranīti* to this *milieu* of physical and social forces and influences, would, however, incidentally furnish some of the evidences pointing to the age and *locale* of the work.