[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) › c4.s9.3 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c4.s9.3 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c4.s9.3 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9.3) Though the two orders impinge on each other, there is no process through which they can merge. Nor does the great tradition gradually supersede the little tradition, as the well-known phenomenon of "Sanskritization" (or "brahminization") seems to suggest. These terms imply not so much a process as a structure—a structure that is determined by the unbridgeable gap between the two traditions. - [Previous: c4.s9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9.2) - [Next: c4.s9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9.4) - [Up: c4.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4.s9.3) · Pramāṇa