Local Government in Ancient India c13.131

c13.131

The ordinary civil functions of the assembly are designated as *grāma-kārya* in a number of inscriptions already cited (e.g. nos. 195, 196 of 1908, 92 of 1914). In no. 390 of 1908 it is definitely stated that the assembly gathers to discuss *grāma-kārya*. The assembly divided itself, as we have already seen, into a number of standing annual committees to administer the manifold interests of communal life. The functions of those committees when viewed in the whole, will give a clear idea of the total field of work covered by the local bodies. We shall in this place point out some essential items in that work with reference to the general administrative principles involved in them.