The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s9.3

c9.s9.3

Altogether, the attempts at *rapprochement* between the *Madhyadeśa* and "the East," between the alleged “Aryans” and “Non-Aryans” etc. that had been going on through the ages broke down by the sixth century B.C. And among the innumerable sophists, metaphysicians, *sanyāsins*, mystics, philosophers, social reformers, moralists and so forth the *Upaniṣad* which succeeded in conquering the mind of India was not one of those which grew up in the schools associated with the Vedic complex. It was rather the one which in the sayings of Śākya the Buddha was born out of the urge for a new racial, regional and moral solidarity such as the Vedists of the time failed to offer.