[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c25.41 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c25.41 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c25.41 - **Language:** English ### [c25.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c25.41) § 140. From the treatment of the Yavanas, the Kambojas, the Andhras, and the Pulindas in Manu and the Mahā-Bhārata, it appears that their republics soon lost their independence, and losing it they lost their social independence as well, and were absorbed into Brahmanism under a degraded caste-status—for the Hindu can visualise human organisations only in terms of caste. The result therefore was that these races were reduced into mere degraded castes living under Hindu rulers. - [Previous: c25.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c25.40) - [Next: c26.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.2) - [Up: c25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c25) ## Cites (2) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c25.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c25.41) · Pramāṇa