Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.72

c47.72

¹ Macdonell and Keith, *Vedic Index*, Vol. II, pp. 214-15. The authors also say "It is not denied that gradually the king came to be vaguely conceived—as the "English king still is—as lord of all the land in a proprietorial sense." The authority for this statement is nil, except 'as the English king still is' which is the *basta*, the original sin, of the theory. The relic of the theory still lingers vaguely.