Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.s1.22

c8.s1.22

Thus it was largely the people themselves that made their own arrangements with regard to the police organisation. The government maintained only a part of the police force, which we can classify as the city and district organisations. Though the police arrangement in the Vijayanagar empire was well adapted to the times, and ensured security in the empire, yet the way in which the *kāvalgārs* were punished for alleged crimes within their jurisdiction was too severe. But since the *kāvalgārs* themselves were generally very influential among the criminal tribes and could not but have had some control over the tribesmen, the arrangement had generally a wholesome effect.