Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.2

c55.2

§ 371. This is a brief survey, in fact too brief a survey, of a polity which had a free career of at least thirty centuries of history¹—a career longer than that of all the polities known to history. Babylon might have lived a few centuries longer, but unfortunately Babylon is no more. Against this we have India still existing, and in this respect China—another civil polity—is her only parallel.