State and Government in Ancient India c13.82
State and Government in Ancient India c13.82
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c13.82
Dr. Jayaswal has suggested that in some of these states there were two Houses, an Upper and a Lower House.² This seems to be very improbable. The members of the privileged classes, who constituted the Assembly, were very jealous of their status and extraction, and would hardly have tolerated an Upper House. The elders, on whose advice the Ambashṭhas decided to make peace with Alexander, were not the members of a House of Elders, but the senior persons of their own order.