[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.s2.21 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s2.21 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s2.21 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2.21) 21. R. G. Fox, \*Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule\* (Berkeley, 1971). Fox discerns five stages of a development cycle, moving from a segmentary lineage system through stratification to the breakthrough of ruling elements that “rip through the genealogical cover which had tied their political activities to the expansive familism of the group” (p. 159). Finally the system reverts again to the first stage. Though the analysis refers to the kinship-based rajput polity, the two main points of the cycle, dispersion and concentration of power, are generally relevant. We may also turn to Leach’s analysis of the transition between the Kachin and Shan types of polity in \*Political Systems of Highland Burma\* (Boston, 1965). - [Previous: c19.s2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2.20) - [Next: c19.s2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2.22) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s2.21) · Pramāṇa