Local Government in Ancient India With Foreword By the Marquess of Crewe
Local Government in Ancient India With Foreword By the Marquess of Crewe
Radhakumud Mookerji
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Scythian, Greek, Saracen, Afghan, Mongol, and Maratha have come down from its mountains, and Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Dane up out of its seas, and set up their successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide \^ This is indeed an echo of an earlier utterance of Sir Charles Metcalfe : * The village communities are little republics, having nearly ev...erything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution; . . . ^Dut the village community remains the same. . . This * Industrial Arts of India^ p. 320. ', in INTRODUCTION 3 union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive, con- tributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the peoples of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and to the enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence \^ /The fact is that India presents the rare and Relations " " between remarkable phenomenon of the state and the society state and co-existing apart from, and in some degree of inde- ^^^^^^7 pendence of, each other, as distinct and separate India units or entities, as independent centres of national, popular, and collective life and activity.
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