The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s15.3

c7.s15.3

Besides, by the middle of the seventeenth century and of course during the entire eighteenth century, new Hindu races, the Sikhs and the Marathas, were militant and succeeded in transforming themselves into manufacturers of states of substantial and dangerous importance. During this century and a half the Moghul Empire and other Mussalman states were placed on the defensive by the Hindus who pursued an aggressive rôle. The Mussalmans, therefore, could not claim to be anything more than colleagues and peers of the Hindus who were simultaneously holding their own in diverse regions of India, e.g., under the Rajputs of old standing as well as under the new-born Marathas and Sikhs.