Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s1.73

c12.s1.73

In ancient India, however, the Central Government was raised on the bed-rock of local institutions, self-governing in every respect, and forming ready adjuncts or even organs of government. The relation of the Central Government to these small states was guidance by supervision and not by direct effective control. Local institutions were, in other words, treated as efficient auxiliaries to the Central Government, and rarely was any opposition raised to it. These organized local institutions constituted by the community for furthering