[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.s1 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s1: Introduction The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s1 - **Language:** English ### Introduction ### [c19.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.1) 1. On the adaptiveness of tradition and the unsatisfactory tradition-modernity dichotomy, see L. I. Rudolph and S. H. Rudolph, Introduction to \*The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India\* (Chicago, 1967). ### [c19.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.2) 2. See Robert Lingat, "Time and the Dharma," \*Contributions to Indian Sociology\* 6 (1962): 7–16, esp. 14. ### [c19.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.3) 3. \*ĀpDhS\* 1. 7. 20. 6. ### [c19.s1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.4) 4. \*Vās\* 1. 6–7. ### [c19.s1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.5) 5. See chapter 1. ### [c19.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.6) 6. See especially chapters 2–7. ### [c19.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.7) 7. This would seem to be what is intended by J. F. Staal, "The Meaninglessness of Ritual," \*Numen\* 26 (1979): 2–22. Vedic ritual, on which Staal builds his case, consciously maximizes the potential of ritual for structure. It has structure instead of meaning. This, however, need not be the case everywhere for all ritual. I have expanded this theme in "The Ritualist's Problem," an article that will appear in a forthcoming volume edited by S. D. Joshi in honor of R. N. Dandekar. ### [c19.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.8) 8. See chapter 3. ### [c19.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.9) 9. See chapter 4. ### [c19.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.10) 10. See chapter 5. ### [c19.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.11) 11. Cf. chapter 2, section 6. ### [c19.s1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.12) 12. See chapter 6. ### [c19.s1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.13) 13. See chapter 7. ### [c19.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.14) 14. Cf. chapter 7, section 6, and Heesterman, "The Ritualist's Problem." ### [c19.s1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.15) 15. See chapters 8–10. ### [c19.s1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.16) 16. See chapter 8, especially section 7–11. ### [c19.s1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.17) 17. See chapter 9. ### [c19.s1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.18) 18. See chapter 10. ### [c19.s1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.19) 19. See chapter 11. ### [c19.s1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.20) ²⁰ "Inclusivism" has been coined as a concept by P. Hacker. See his lecture in \*Inclusivismus: Eine indische Denkform\*, ed. Gerhard Oberhammer (Vienna, 1983), 11–28; also Oberhammer's "Nachwort," in ibid., 93–113. The phenomenon has more often been commented upon. See, e.g., Louis Dumont, "For a Sociology of India," \*Contributions to Indian Sociology\* 1 (1957): 7–22, esp. 21: "Hinduism has repelled the onslaught of christianity by integrating those christian values which were not dangerous to it." ### [c19.s1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1.21) 21. See chapter 12. 22. See chapter 13. ## Linked texts (2) - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba.1.7.20.6) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s1) · Pramāṇa