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² For an account of village communities read Altekar, Village Communities in Western India; Baden Powell, Indian Village Community. Also his Land Systems of British India, (3 Vols. Oxford, 1892); Pietro della Valle, Travels, II, p. 207, seq.; Acharya, Dicty of Hind. Arch., pp. 184-5; Havell, Ancient and Med. Arch., p. 8, seq., 13, 170; Anand Coomar Swamy, Indian Craftsmen, p. 129; Bāṇa, Harshacharita, pp. 190, 198; Radhakamal Mukerjee, Democracies of the East, P. III, pp. 162, seq., 258 seq., 295, seq., (1931).