[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) › c55.2 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.2 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.2 - **Language:** English ### [c55.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.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. - [Previous: c54.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c54.3) - [Next: c55.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.3) - [Up: c55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.2) · Pramāṇa