[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) › c9.18 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.18 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c9.18 - **Language:** English ### [c9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.18) Here we have, I think, the whole development: from contest,²³ involving the formulation and enacting of the antithetical relation, to rigorously fixed liturgy and identificatory statement, to the final internalization of the whole procedure by the single, unopposed sacrificer. - [Previous: c9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.17) - [Next: c9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.19) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9.18) · Pramāṇa