The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t1.1

c7.s16.t1.1

International as well as inter-racial relations,—the politics of boundaries, the "geopolitics",—constituted the anatomy of India’s political history as that of Europe’s political history through the ages. These contacts between the races such as have contributed to the making of political India were of the most diverse character. No less heterogeneous than those in Europe were the contacts of the indigenous Indian tribes, races or nations with the non-Indian tribes, races or nations. These extra-Indian peoples may be somewhat chronologically enumerated as follows: