The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s5.4

c7.s5.4

It is interesting to find, therefore, that De la Vallée Poussin,¹² who considers the above remarks of Sénart as worthy of meditation, has the following in connection with the Maurya administration. "The Hindu genius," says he, "which we often consider as essentially mystical and fantastic, revealed in all the fields of social, political and economic life incontestable gifts of organization.