The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c3.2

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I also want to express my thanks to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the publishers of *Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und Ostasiens*, the Indological Institute of Vienna University, Leiden University Press, and Professor John F. Richards and Professor W. Schluchter for their kind permission to revise and republish the papers which first appeared under their auspices. In this connection, I should especially mention my friend and colleague Gerhard Oberhammer, director of the Indological Institute of Vienna University and editor of *Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und Ostasiens*. He hospitably accepted five of the following essays in the publications edited by him, but most of all I feel grateful for our many hours of animated discussion, in and out of seminars, over a long period of years.