The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.3

c16.3

No matter whether it is exercised by the one or the few or the many, no matter whether it is vested in the long run in the legislature or the executive or the judiciary, no matter whether it is identical with the despotism of custom or the rule of positive law, no matter whether it manifests itself in and through a single organ as the *primum mobile* embracing all organized spheres or is exhibited simultaneously in several coexistent coordinate corporations of a pluralistic universe, and finally, no matter whether it is the monopoly of the bourgeoisie or of the proletariat, it is *svâmitva* that ushers into being the phenomena called politics in social existence. In political speculation the central problem obviously is the analysis of this great *śakti* (force) that constitutes the core of "political" relations, i. e. the *élan* of *samûha* life.