The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.23
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.23
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24. There is, in my opinion, no need for a historical reconstruction of the different phases through which the republic developed out of elected kingship, finally ending in a monarchical system, as proposed by J. P. Sharma, *Republics in Ancient India* (Leiden, 1968), 17f. As Sharma makes clear, the monarchical order existed all the time, side by side with the “republican” one.