[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914) › c8.2 # The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c8.2 The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c8.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8.2) The Homeric antiquity of Greece lost its prestige about half a century ago on account of the discoveries in Crete. Homer was then found to be not so much the first of a new series as the last of an old. The same "misfortune" has befallen Vedic India today owing to the "inconvenient" discoveries of the Mohenjo Daro-Harappa culture. In the perspective of the "Hindus" who were responsible for the technocracy and spiritual life of that civilization the Vedic \*Ṛiṣis\* are found to be much too "flat, jejune, modern." Once more has Vedic civilization grown into a regular "problem" of world-culture. This question has bearings not only on the old issues relating to the so-called Indo-Aryan complex but on the new ones also relating to the origins of civilization itself. And the problems are as much anthropologico-geographical as chronologico-historical. - [Previous: c7.s17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c7.s17.2) - [Next: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8.3) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8.2) · Pramāṇa