[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 # The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology Secular sciences of the Hindus: geography, economics, agriculture, minerals, botany, zoology, medicine, polity and law, with translated passages from Śukranīti and other texts. - **Language:** English - **Date:** 1887–1949 CE - **Author:** [Benoy Kumar Sarkar](https://indike.org/pramana/person/sarkar-bk) - **Extent:** 3,124 passages, 182,112 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · 2nd ed. (Book I, Introduction to Hindu Positivism), Allahabad: Panini Office (Sacred Books of the Hindus 32)… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Benoy Kumar Sarkar †1949); published before 1931:… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c1) — 5 parts - [c2 The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c2) — 6 parts - [c3 Publishers' Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c3) — 259 parts - [c4 Author's Preface to the Second Edition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c4) — 12 parts - [c5 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c5) — 74 parts - [c6 Chapter II. Hindu Culture and Sociology in Sukraniti](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c6) — 5 parts - [c7 Chapter III. Landmarks in the History of Hindu Political Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c7) — 19 parts - [c8 Chapter IV. Mohenjo Daro Monuments vis-à-vis Vedic Texts (c. 3500-2500 B.C.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c8) — 8 parts - [c9 Chapter V. Vedic Ideology (c. 2500-600 B.C.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c9) — 14 parts - [c10 Chapter VI. Pali Literature as a Source of Studies in Economics, Politics and Sociology (c. B.C. 600-300 A.C.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c10) — 17 parts - [c11 Chapter VIII. The Kauṭalya Question](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c11) — 8 parts - [c12 Chapter IX. From Kauṭalya to Varāhamihira (c. B.C. 300-600 A.C.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c12) — 24 parts - [c13 Chapter X. From Harṣa to Hemādri (c. 600-1300)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c13) — 11 parts - [c14 Chapter XI. From Chandesvara to Rammohun (c. 1300-1833)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c14) — 12 parts - [c15 Chapter XII. Hindu Philosophy's Contributions to Positivism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c15) — 2 parts - [c16 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914.c16) — 2 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1914) · Pramāṇa