About the Book: The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism
(Freshly recomposed edition)
Max Webers early twentieth-century study of the religions and civilization of
India is a great pioneering adventure in the sociology of ancient India. Webers
insight and analysis—especially his application of the sociological perspective
to the work of classical Indologists and the religious texts available to
him—were to add much to the store of the social scientist. Later, historians and
archaeologists were to confirm a surprising number of Webers theories. The
central concern of this and other of Webers studies of countries we today
describe as "developing" was with the obstacles to