The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.1

c7.s16.1

Certain considerations of a general character bearing on what Tönnies, Richard, Simmel, Ross, von Wiese and Bouglé would call the doctrine of social relations or social processes⁴⁷ emerge from a bare chronology of the leading state-systems of India from the Mohenjo Daro period (c 3500 B.C.) down to 1818 A.C. The politics of the "Hindus," i.e., the so-called Dravidians, the so-called Aryans and the Aryo-Dravidians, were not the politics of the Hindus in isolation. "Culture-contact" was a leading formative force in the social metabolism operating through the evolution of Hindu states.⁴⁸