The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s7.12

c9.s7.12

Vedic polity is on the one hand the polity of *Rassenkampf*, of interracial and intra-racial conflicts. On the other hand, it is the physiognomy and morphology of race-co-operation and class-solidarity that we see in the demographic structure of Vedic society. Vedic India was a melting-pot of races and cultures, and its sociography like that of other areas has to be interpreted as by all means a hybrid.²⁵ Champions of “pure races” and “pure cultures” will be disappointed if they approach this culture with their hypothesis of race-segregation or cultural aloofness such as is generally considered to be unhistorical and sociologically undesirable by Hankins in the *Racial Basis of Civilization* (New York 1924), Gini in *Population* (Chicago 1930), and Martial in “La Race Française et la nouvelle Conception du Mot Race” (*Bevölkerungsfragen*, Munich 1936).