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# The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c16.6

The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c16.6

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### [c16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c16.6)

This dual pigeonholing effort had the added advantage of conceptually separating land and people under the two grids of village and caste. Instead of rights in land being subsumed in the relationships between people, land and people could now be separately dealt with. The link between them was to be provided by a new concept of a single-stranded connection between the individual owner and his exclusive property.

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