The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s10.1

c7.s10.1

In the second place, no special importance can be attached, in connection with the topic under discussion, either to the foreign (in the present instance, Moslem) invasions or to the establishment of kingdoms or empires by the Moslem Arabs or Moslem Turks in diverse parts of India. While discussing the sovereignty of Hindu states in India one cannot afford to leave the Deccan and Southern India out of sight. Not until Islam, whether under Arabs or Turks or Moghuls, succeeded in becoming the "paramount" political power *de jure* or even *de facto* in India should the student of history think of closing an epoch and commencing a new.