The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t3.8

c7.s16.t3.8

The normal data of Indian political history yield then the following results. Culture-contact as an element in social mobility, or social mobility as an element in culture-contact was responsible in India as elsewhere for "internationalism" as understood in the sense of impacts of the geographically extra-Indian peoples on the Indian and *vice versa*. Then there arose transformations in economic, social and political stratification within the Indian boundaries in every region as well as every age. Thirdly, the mingling of races, Indian as well as extra-Indian, in flesh and blood was a constant determinant in the entire process of family, community or society-making through the ages. The fusion of castes may be taken for certain purposes as but an aspect of the mingling of races. In other respects also inter-caste marital alliances constituted the basic factors in the social organization. And last but not least, the alleged “lower” races or castes and the alleged “outsiders,” i.e. non-Aryans, non-Hindus and what not were getting access to the “upper ten thousands” in blood, ritual, wealth and political power. In the *Sāstras* on law, politics and social mores one will have to read the influence of all these aspects of “sociations,” “social interactions,” “social processes,” “social relations,” or *Beziehungen* as discussed in contemporary sociology.⁵⁴