[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) › c5.19 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.19 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.19 - **Language:** English ### [c5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.19) Viewed in this way, modernity would seem to add only a few new possibilities to the old conflict, while the latter remains the same, so that when everything is said and done the overall pattern has not changed. Though this view may be helpful in laying the ghost of the overworked tradition-modernity fight, it is not sufficient, for it comes down to yet another assertion of India's perennial unchangeability grinding all innovation to meaningless dust. On the contrary, it should be asked whether the obvious changes that have been wrought over the last hundred or two hundred years are only of a superficial nature without any significant impact on the overall structure. Or, in other words, whether the inner conflict on which Indian civilization is built changed in form and content. - [Previous: c5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.18) - [Next: c5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.20) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.19) · Pramāṇa