The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.41

c16.s1.t3.41

We have now to understand the doctrine of *dharma* as justice in its bearing on the theory of the state. Justice does not exist in the *mâtsya-nyâya*; if therefore a reversion to *mâtsya-nyâya* is to be avoided i. e. if the state is to be maintained, justice must not be tampered with. Justice is necessarily as integral a limb of sovereignty in Hindu conception as law.