State and Government in Ancient India c23.s6.20

c23.s6.20

We begin to get detailed information about the village councils and their constitutions and functions only after the 9th century A.D. They were called Sabhās, when the villages were mostly inhabited by Brāhmaṇas and Urs, when they contained a very large section of non-Brahmin population. The full information about these two types of village councils has been already given by us in Chap. XI, pp. 231-5.