Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c11.82

c11.82

Besides these there were certain mercantile corporations which were recognised to be quasi-political bodies within the empire. In the same way as almost every village had an assembly, every town appears to have had a mercantile association or guild. In fact the true difference between a village and a town lay in the fact that while the former had no such guild, almost every town had one known as the *nagarattār*. Secondly every town had generally a weekly fair (*śantai*) while that was not the mark of all villages.