In this article, I aim to show how Louis Dumont’s famous claim that ‘the condition for a sound development of Sociology of India is found in the establishment of the proper relation between it and classical Indology’ has become obsolete and was from the beginning a problematic postulate. I first develop the historical background of the denigration of anthropological approaches in India against the rise of an idealising Indology as a philological discipline. Then I discuss the structural, methodological and ideological problems that made it difficult to follow Dumont’s advice to search for the point of confluence of sociology and Indology. Finally, I place Dumont’s holistic approach in relation to the holistic structure of academic disciplines that emerged in the 19th century on the basis of the nation-state model and argue that it is misleading and reductive to think that ‘the construction of an Indian Sociology rests in part upon the existence of Indology’.

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“在社会学和印度学的交汇点”：路易斯·杜蒙的假设重新考虑

在这篇文章中，我的目的是展示路易斯·杜蒙 (Louis Dumont) 的著名主张，即“印度社会学的良好发展的条件在于建立印度社会学与古典印度学之间的适当关系”已经过时，并且从一开始就存在问题。假定。我首先发展了印度人类学方法受到诋毁的历史背景，以反对理想化的印度学作为一门语言学学科的兴起。然后我讨论了结构性、方法论和意识形态问题，这些问题使得难以遵循杜蒙的建议来寻找社会学和印度学的汇合点。最后，