Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.33

c51.33

§ 367. The system which was tried next was a compromise The Gupta system tolerated a few substates under it, but in reality it was neither a Federalism nor the inferior type, the pure *Ādhipatya*. In essentials it remained a large monarchy. A real federalism with something like equal treatment to other states remained to be revived.