Political Science and Sociology tire so intimately connected that the, political is embedded in the social and if Political Science, remains distinct from Sociology, it will be because the, breadth of the field calls for the specialist, and not because there are any well-defined boundaries marking it off from Sociology. They are mutually contributory. Political Science gives to Sociology facts about the organisation and functions of the State, and obtains from it knowledge of the origin of political authority and laws which controlled society. The State in its early stages was more of a social than a political institution, and Giddings is of the opinion that “to teach the theory of the State to men who have not learned the first principles of sociology, is like teaching astronomy or thermodynamics to men who have not learned the Newtonian law of motion. A political scientist must be a sociologist and a sociologist ought to be a political scientist. For example, the institution of marriage by itself is an element in the social life of man and is the concern of Sociology. But if a code of marriage, like the Hindu Marriage Act, is enacted to regulate it in a particular way, it at once falls within the domain of Political Science as it comes within the scope of organised control and obedience. The Hindu, the Sikh, the Muslim and the Christian communities by themselves are the subjects of Sociology, being parts of the Indian society, but when they quarrel among themselves and their quarrel flares up into communal riots it not only represents the pathological side of Indian social life but also a problem of deep political concern to prevent their recurrence and to remove the causes of conflict in order to weld them into a patriotic nation. Likewise, if we study revolutions, we must take into account their social as well as their political causes as appearing in different environments. The analysis of political parties cannot be divorced from their relationship to social classes, and the sociology of the electorate—behaviour of man in the associated process—solves the difficulties emerging from the basic democratic mechanism.