The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.9

c16.s1.t3.9

For purposes of political theory we have to neglect 1. and 2. and confine ourselves to the import of *dharma* as law, justice, and duty. The doctrine of *dharma* then enunciates three propositions:—first, that the state differs from the non-state as a law-giving institution; secondly, that the state differs from the non-state as a justice-dispensing institution; and thirdly, that the state differs from the non-state as a duty-enforcing institution.