The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.33

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Against the backdrop of the traditional empire, we may now try to understand the change that modernity has brought about in the inner conflict of Indian tradition as it is reflected in the sociopolitical sphere. This change, then, bears on the relationship between reality and the legitimating ideal or, in specifically Indian terms, between the "kingly" and the brahminical, renunciatory order.