Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.28

c51.28

The idea of unity was the only element therein which would find approval of the historian. Apart from that element, there was nothing in the system to commend itself to the experience of the country. The system, meant development of a tremendous power, but it was a power attained under intoxication. The after-effect was sinking into exhaustion. It never became an approved system. The law books and political thinkers went back to the ideals of the Federal System and the Adhipatya They preached that individual states had a right to live.¹