[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.s11.3 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.3 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s11.3 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.3) 3. See Harmut Scharfe, \*Die Staatsrechtslehre des Kauṭalya\* (Wiesbaden, 1968), 138ff. Scharfe illustrates both meanings, land as well as people, separately. For the undifferentiated unity of land and people, cf. O. Brunner, \*Land und Herrschaft\* (Darmstadt, 1970), 234f. The undifferentiated people-cum-territory is discussed by Louis Dumont, "Nationalism and Communalism," \*Contributions to Indian Sociology\* 7 (1964): 30–70, esp. 60ff. For the rise of the clearly defined and compact territory as the basis of national unity, see J. R. Talmon, \*The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy\*, reprint ed. (London, 1906), 109f.; and J. C. Heesterman, "Two Types of Boundaries," \*Felicitation Volume for S. N. Eisenstadt\*, ed. E. Cohen (forthcoming). - [Previous: c19.s11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.2) - [Next: c19.s11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.4) - [Up: c19.s11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s11.3) · Pramāṇa