[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) › c47.72 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.72 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.72 - **Language:** English ### [c47.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.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. - [Previous: c47.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c47.71) - [Next: c47.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c47.73) - [Up: c47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c47) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c47.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c47.72) · Pramāṇa