The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.25

c9.s1.25

Now that during the epoch of the "white man's burthen" the Hindu has been deprived of the chances for displaying an aggressive secularism except, if at all, only as a "second fiddle" to the "natural master", there has grown up a general scepticism among Eur-American scholars even as to the capacity of Hindus for organized activity and institutional achievements.² This occidental suspicion about the Orient has absolutely no foundation in facts. The Hindu *viriya* (i. e. energy or genius) for organization and cooperative endeavor has exhibited itself as much in the political as in the non-political spheres of social life.