The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c7.s2.7
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c7.s2.7
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c7.s2.7
I think here we touch the basic terms of the contradiction between "brahmanic" thought and unreformed reality, as when the Gandhian ideal of non-violence was unavoidably attended by actual violence. It is this interaction between the two contradictory poles that is the pivot of Indian civilization, past and present.