[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) › c19.s11.23 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.23) 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. - [Previous: c19.s11.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.22) - [Next: c19.s11.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.24) - [Up: c19.s11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.23) · Pramāṇa