[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) › c55.8 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.8 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.8 - **Language:** English ### [c55.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.8) § 374. The Reformation of the Hindu has come. But a force which is greater still is also coming. This is the pagan thought, the European man-hood. What a coincidence that the race which evolved the greatest constitutional principles in antiquity should be placed to-day in contact with the greatest constitutional polity of modern times. The contact is electrifying : it can either kill or rejuvenate the Race.² Probabilities, however, are, as the historian thought,³ for the latter, and a Hindu would naturally hope for the latter. - [Previous: c55.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.7) - [Next: c55.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.9) - [Up: c55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.8) · Pramāṇa