The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s6.1

c7.s6.1

But according to him,¹³ all the same, the history of India exhibits the alternatives of concentration and *émiettement* (crumbling) or disruption. "India is naturally disrupted,'' says he, and he quotes Foucher's *Gāndhāra*, Vol. II, as follows: "This is the law of her history,—the periodical reconstruction and disintegration of her empires. And there is not yet an example of any of them having endured for more than three hundred years.''