The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s6.3

c7.s6.3

In regard to Foucher's opinion De la Vallée Poussin makes the following observations: "But India is not amorphous. *C'est une opinion classique mais erronée* (this is a classical opinion but erroneous); because it did not know of anything but the central government, when there was one, and the village. On the contrary, India is divided into a large number of petty states of the feudal or communal type, *rājās*, and cities, units solidly constituted and sufficiently organized for defence, in normal times, against external dangers.''