[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) › c26.58 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.58 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.58 - **Language:** English ### [c26.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.58) § 159. The older republics in the Punjab, however, paid the price which nature decrees from freedom to force. The smaller Punjab republics under the Mauryas had become mere constitutions; they had lost their biological constitution and retained the one of political phraseology: they were no more Saṅghas, but mere Gaṇas: self-governments without states, states without power. - [Previous: c26.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.57) - [Next: c26.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.59) - [Up: c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c26.58) · Pramāṇa