He was critical of the Indonesian elite who could not abandon the feudalistic characteristics inherited from their ancestors.

Confucian philosophy, despite the Communist Party's efforts to discredit it as "feudalistic", could not be negated in people's eschatological beliefs and value structure - it persists as a powerful, albeit suppressed force.

Stephanie Lawson, in her chapter on cultural relativism, even goes so far as to state, ahistorically, that Europe's feudalistic `organic statism', as it survives in `British/European' conservatism, was handed down to elites in Asia as part of the colonisation process.

Yet Unwin was not an apologist for a return to a feudalistic past.

First, a land-reform program made the majority of small farmers into independent proprietors, which meant the dissolution of the traditional structure of Japanese feudalistic society that had been dominated by relatively few large landowners.

Surprisingly, given the feudalistic character of politics in modern Iran, open disagreements exist in the ranks of the Islamic regime.

Despite the democratic moorings, the Philippines is also patently feudalistic, where only a few dynastic families rule the roost.

Majority of the ideological leaders in PPP either themselves left the party, because of Bhutto's feudalistic mindset, or were gradually sidelined by party leadership before next general election, held in April 1977.

To that, the reply is: If we continue to elect dynasts in the elections, we are ensuring the survival of the feudalistic characteristics of our society.

Corruption, Pakistan's nemesis, is largely an off-shoot of the feudalistic mindset that cares a fig about trampling the law.

Oli did was more akin to the machinations of a village Thalu, an institution, given its feudalistic nature, thrived on wanton acts of indiscretions and exploitation and extraction of resources from the community without any accountability to go with them.

Khairy's selection would completely buck the deeply feudalistic party's fascination with hierarchy and succession plans, but the outgoing Umno Youth chief has also been the only one to lay down his plans to rebuild Umno.

The age when he was active, spanning the end of the Edo Era (1603-1867) and the Meiji Era (1867-1911), was a time when Japan was undergoing transformation from a traditional feudalistic society to a modern one, greatly influenced by new ideas and teachings coming from the West.

A feudalistic structure of the two political parties gives them not only the much required access, but the strength and popularity down to the very roots of the population as well, something which might not be possible to achieve otherwise.A fine example here would be Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).

Some might explain this as the outcome of a dominant feudalistic mindset, which does not want to show the world how violent, weak and cowardly it can be in dealing with peasant communities.