The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c22.16

c22.16

The best testimony to the wisdom of Hindu polity is that the organisation of the village community, which was the bed-rock of Aryan society, remained unshaken for at least five thousand years, until the middle of the last governments of modern times in the East or in the West, while it did not prevent the co-operation of national forces for purposes useful to the community at large.