[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985) › c15.7 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c15.7 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c15.7 - **Language:** English ### [c15.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15.7) Does this mean that we have to resign ourselves to this atomization or, alternatively, that we have to fall into the trap of another fragmentation along the lines of Eurocentric, Indocentric, Sinocentric historiographies? I do not think that we have to submit to either of these unattractive alternatives. But first we should try to characterize the society where, since the second half of the eighteenth century, the expansion of British control took place. - [Previous: c15.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15.6) - [Next: c15.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15.s1.1) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15.7) · Pramāṇa