The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s10.2

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³⁵ B. Parsad: *The Theory of Government in Ancient India* (Allahabad 1927) takes the conventional view, pp. 14-15. In the second edition of Ghoshal's *History of Hindu Political Theories* (Calcutta 1927) occurs the following passage (p. 22): "Nevertheless it seems to us that we are still far from reaching a true theory of the king's divinity." This position indicates a susbstantial improvement upon that in the first edition (1923, pp. 27-32) where he made too much of the doctrine of the alleged divinity of the king in the Vedic texts. In the second edition he has been "led to abandon," as he says (p. vi), "the tentative reconstruction of the Vedic polity which I sketched in the first edition of my work." In between appeared my observations on his first edition in the papers entitled "Hindu Politics in Italian" and "On Some Methods and Conclusions in Hindu Politics" in the *I.H.Q.* Sept. 1925—April 1926, December 1926—March 1927. Further improvement is required in connection with his data, for instance, at pp. 23-25 (second edition).