Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.34
Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.34
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c51.34
§ 368. For our purposes of constitutional study the second³ and the third⁴ empires are but mere monarchies. The power of constitutional bodies under them must have varied to some extent according to the periods of peace and war. In periods of war and stress they must have become somewhat weak and in periods of peace they would have grown powerful. The popular forms, at any rate, still lived.