Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s2.22

c12.s2.22

Śukrāchārya speaks of these and also of the corporations of ascetics, thieves, foresters and soldiers.² In Buddhist literature there is mention of co-operative producers organizing themselves in a guild, as well as corporations of butchers, leatherworkers, fishermen, sailors, dyers, ivory-workers, metallurgists, etc., in the fifth and the sixth centuries B.C.¹