Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s2.t2.1

c7.s2.t2.1

Another theory of the origin of the institution of monarchy is the individualistic theory which prevailed in the West in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is well known as the theory of contract. According to it the relationship between the ruler and the ruled was contractual. Such contractual relations find unmistakable expression in the Buddhist canon. From here is traced the origin of human kingship, with its notion of agreement as the basis of the political order.