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Necessity of sociological theory as to what we want to achieve. 135

The ideal of world community is to be admitted, but we should be cautious not to have it too early. 136

Necessity of the territorial feeling 137

The bases of Indian unity: (i) Cosmopolitan philosophy in the matters of religion. (ii) Indifference to religion in political and social matters. (iii) Assertion of the doctrine of the equality of all tribes. 137

To reform Hinduism is to create Indianism or Indian Nationalism 138

Change from Tribalism to territorialism, a requirement of Indianism. The two terms explained 139

How territorial society becomes tribal society and vice versa 140

Cause of great barriers between peoples is the concourse of races and nationalities greatly removed from each other 144

The change in people's ideas to meet the circumstances: (i) Man has become more liberal; (ii) increase in the assimilative powers of man 144

Meaning of the words, "increase of assimilative power" 145

The ultimate end of territorial system is to make man more individualistic 145

Measures to make Indians a territorial society: (i) By displacing tribal or religious law by common Indian legislation. (ii) To make political division of India conform as far as possible with the areas occupied by the dominant tribes 146

Aristocracy and its place in nation making 147

No genuine Indian aristocracy 148

Possibility of creating aristocracy of princes and chiefs. It is desirable to create such aristocracy if possible 149

But it is not possible at present because the princes are slothful and therefore the Brāhmaṇas ought to undertake the task 151

CHAPTER X

Future of religions and unity of civilization. Expansion by the process of sampradāya (theophratry) must cease sometime. Therefore some social philosophy larger than that of loyalty to a sampradāya is needed and to that philosophy all the religions in the world will be subordinated, and that philosophy is Mānava-dharma or cosmopolitanism 154

Religions are not necessary for the well-being of the Society 156