The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.127

c10.127

An exact picture of the functioning of the Pre-British village communities and the recent changes has been made available in recent years.¹ We have already described the role of the hereditary official in the village. These were strengthened by the caste and kinship groups, and as Kathleen Gough has explained, "the stability of the traditional village organization may be seen as a balancing out of various unities and antagonisms."²