Local Government in Ancient India c13.164

c13.164

We have now considered the kind of administrative machinery devised by the central government through which the force of its supervision and direction could be exerted upon the affairs of the local goverment. We may now consider some further classes of cases and types of local problems which called for the interference of the central government and set in operation its machinery of supervision. These cases or problems were mostly connected with the discharge of their duties by the assembly as trustees of properties committed to their care and administration. The assembly were in fact in the last resort held accountable to the king in regard to their management of these properties according to the conditions of the trust.