The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c14.2

c14.2

The problem has often been seen as the outcome of a historical struggle in which the brainy brahmins would have bested their illiterate kṣatriya masters in an all-embracing *Kulturkampf*. Here I should at once mention the views of Louis Dumont, who has placed the problem in its proper perspective. Rejecting the conjectural historical struggle for preeminence as an explanation, Dumont proposed to look at the problematic relation between