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Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c22.25

Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c22.25

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c22.25

"There is universal equality by birth (in the *Gaṇas*) and also there is equality by *Kula*.¹ (31) They cannot be broken up by prowess or cleverness, nor again by temptations of beauty.² They can be broken up by enemies through the policy of division and subsidy only.