[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) › c55.9 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.9 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.9 - **Language:** English ### [c55.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.9) ² There is much unthinking and unreasonable mortification at times witnessed at the thought of being "conquered." But conquest is only a mode of receiving new thoughts and new life. What great modern community was not conquered ? The primitive state of England would have continued much longer but for the advent of the Danes and the Normans. Germany and Italy would have remained a European Rajputana or a Kathiawad but for the French and Austrian domination. India would have become another Siam, Ceylon or Korea but for the Muhammadan incoming. - [Previous: c55.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.8) - [Next: c55.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.10) - [Up: c55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c55.9) · Pramāṇa