The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s16.t6.3

c7.s16.t6.3

This numerical growth, important in itself as it is, acquires a fresh significance when one observes that the aboriginals are today more Hindu than “tribal” in religion. Nearly sixty-six per cent of the big three primitives is Hindu. As a transformation, the Hinduization of the aboriginals is further interesting in another regard. The Hinduized aboriginals form a part, nearly 12 per cent, of what are generally called the “depressed classes,”—say, the *Harijans* (God's children)—of the Hindu society. We understand, then, that the aboriginals of yesterday constitute the depressed classes of today. In other words, the societal transformation known as Hinduization hides the fact of, or prepares the way to, racial expansion, race-fusion and race-assimilation.