The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c7.s1.34

c7.s1.34

While, therefore, for purposes of comparative politics it is necessary to conclude that *pax sârva-bhaumica* or *federation de l'empire* is at least as conspicuous an achievement⁴ of Hindu statesmanship as *pax Romana* of occidental, it is on the other hand to be admitted on scientific grounds that the political unity of India is, historically speaking, as great a myth as is the political unity of Europe. India furnishes but another illustration of the universal sway of *mâtsya-nyâya*, the Hobbesian "state of nature", which can lead but to pluralism, whether anarchic or well-ordered. The East has reproduced the same *Naturprozess* of Gumplowicz's *Der Rassenkampf*⁵ as has the West.