The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s8.7

c7.s8.7

The following passage from Foucher's *Gāndhāra* Vol. II, is cited by De la Vallée Poussin with approval: "*L'art de conquerir l'Inde à l'aide des Indiens ne date pas de Dupleix*" (The art of conquering India with the help of Indians does not commence with Dupleix). The reference is to the part played by Indian mercenaries in the Greek campaigns in certain areas of the Punjab. But the student of history can quote plentiful instances of Europeans being exploited by non-Europeans against Europeans. The arts of treason, treachery, internecine warfare, feuds between dynasties, cities or districts etc. are quite orthodox and traditional European commodities. In his *Histoire du commerce entre le Levant et l'Europe*²⁰ Depping makes it clear as to how the Ottomans were aided in the conquest of Europe by the pro-Islamic politics of certain Christian Europeans against other Christian Europeans.