Local Government in Ancient India c13.112

c13.112

Thus the above conditions lay down a property qualification combined with a certain minimum of moral fitness and intellectual proficiency in legal and religious literature for every aspirant after a position in the general assembly of the village, while clause (4) insists on the qualifications (which are elaborated with the necessary fullness and additions only in the Uttaramallūr inscriptions) for candidates for membership of the assembly-committees. There is also the introduction of the principle of representation in clause (3) which gives the propertied persons, who lack the necessary education, power to appoint duly qualified nominees by whom they may be represented in the assembly.