A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c14.10

c14.10

Finally as regards the mutual relations of the sovereign and his subjects following from the contract, we have already endeavoured to show that the Hindu exponents of the contract theory, with the exception of the Buddhist canonists who fail to connect their views with any system of rights and duties, press their notion into service for the purpose of justifying the authority of the ruler and the essential prerogatives of his office. In this respect, then, the Hindu view must be distinguished alike from the theory of Hobbes, and that of Locke and Rousseau.∗