The Colas c26.50

c26.50

Such in outline were the nature, organisation and functions of local assemblies and groups in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In a general account, many characteristic details which might add vividness to the picture are necessarily left out. No room can be found for them except in detailed histories of particular assemblies which cannot be attempted here.¹²⁰ But what has been said is enough to show that between an able bureaucracy and the active local assemblies which in various ways fostered a live sense of citizenship, there was attained a high standard of administrative efficiency and purity, perhaps the highest ever attained by the Hindu State.