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# The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society

Essays on Vedic sacrifice, kingship, brahmin and king, renunciation and the 'inner conflict' between ritual order and worldly power.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [J. C. Heesterman](https://indike.org/pramana/person/heesterman-jc)
- **Extent:** 1,399 passages, 118,479 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1985; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections… · In copyright (J. C. Heesterman †2014); freely available on archive.org, google.com — shown with credit and a…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c1) — 10 parts
- [c2 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c2) — 1 part
- [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c3) — 6 parts
- [c4 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c4) — 9 parts
- [c5 1 India and the Inner Conflict of Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c5) — 45 parts
- [c6 2 Brahmin, Ritual, and Renouncer](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c6) — 9 parts
- [c7 3 The Case of the Severed Head](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c7) — 25 parts
- [c8 4 The Flood Story in Vedic Ritual](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c8) — 4 parts
- [c9 5 The Origin of the Nāstika](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c9) — 39 parts
- [c10 6 Vedic Sacrifice and Transcendence](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c10) — 48 parts
- [c11 7 Ritual, Revelation, and the Axial Age](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c11) — 41 parts
- [c12 8 The Conundrum of the King's Authority](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c12) — 39 parts
- [c13 9 Kauṭilya and the Ancient Indian State](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c13) — 7 parts
- [c14 10 Power, Priesthood, and Authority](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c14) — 9 parts
- [c15 11 Western Expansion, Indian Reaction: Mughal Empire and British Raj](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c15) — 8 parts
- [c16 12 Caste, Village, and Indian Society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c16) — 35 parts
- [c17 13 Caste and Karma: Max Weber's Analysis of Caste](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c17) — 24 parts
- [c18 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c18) — 1 part
- [c19 Notes](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19) — 14 parts
- [c20 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c20) — 100 parts

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