The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s8.t4.8

c7.s8.t4.8

And now that excavations, explorations, readings and interpretations of old vernacular manuscripts, copper-plate inscriptions, architectural monuments, numismatics, study of folklore, folk-songs, folk-arts and village traditions, Sanskrit literature, old sculptures and paintings, call up before us a picture of political and religious life, commercial and social intercourse, art-development and literary progress no less definite and clear than what we have for any other period of Indian history, the necessity of looking upon the Pāla-Sena-Rāṣṭrakūṭa-Chola period as a really creative phase of Hindu India cannot be too strongly advocated.²⁸