[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) › c5.30 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.30 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.30 - **Language:** English ### [c5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.30) Yet such traditional empires are at the same time characterized by an orientation to a suprapersonal and durable unity in which power is regulated by rationally organized bureaucratic agencies on the basis of impersonal principles of justice. In short, it is oriented toward a transcendent legitimation that it tries to translate into reality. - [Previous: c5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.29) - [Next: c5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.31) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5.30) · Pramāṇa