[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c5.10 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.10 Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.10 - **Language:** English ### [c5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.10) An account of the administrative machinery employed for carrying on the administration ought necessarily to consider first what exactly the ideas were that underlay this administrative machinery. It is obvious that a society must exist before it feels the necessity for an organization such as a state or government is. It is generally taken for granted that when society emerges from out of the stage of the mere group organizations of a primitive character and provides itself with a more general organization for carrying on the functions usually regarded as political or governmental, the idea of the state emerges. - [Previous: c5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.9) - [Next: c5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.11) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c5.10) · Pramāṇa