[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928) › c19.56 # The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c19.56 The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c19.56 - **Language:** English ### [c19.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19.56) Harem influences sometimes seriously affected the administration. A singer's daughters, Hamsi and Nāgalatā were taken by the infatuated King Cakravarman into his harem in the thirties of the tenth century A.D. Hamsi was at once designated chief queen.⁴ Her relations tended to monopolise all power and office with the result that the kingdom fell into troubles.⁴ Female intrigue, again, was one of the forces which complicated the problem of the succession on failure of direct heirs. Women were, as a rule, barred from the throne. There is indeed the case of - [Previous: c19.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19.55) - [Next: c19.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19.57) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c19.56) · Pramāṇa