Local Government in Ancient India c13.25

c13.25

The Sabhās or assemblies of the South Indian inscriptions were also generally to be found in *Brahmadeya* (that is, Brāhman) villages and were almost entirely constituted by Brāhmans. The rules laid down in the famous Uttaramallūr inscriptions of the time of Parāntaka I (*Arch. Surv. of India*, 1904–5, pp. 131–45) for membership on village committees—rules to which we shall refer below—appear to apply purely to such Brahmanical Sabhās.