The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s4.13

c9.s4.13

The category, "Aryan", is being used in the linguistic, philological or cultural sense. The "racial," ethnological or blood pluralism of the Vedic ecology is an independent consideration and must not be taken to be identical with the heterogeneity implied in the *charaiveti* or expansion of a dominant culture in the sphere of alien cultures, as discussed in the present context. It is necessary to take note of the unscientific manner in which the category "Aryan" is very commonly taken in the ethnological or racial sense.