Local Government in Ancient India c16.17

c16.17

¹ *The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government*, is the highly significant title of a recently published book (Longmans, March 1919) by M. P. Follet who states:—‘One of the characteristics of present political *theory* is its reaction against the state, and a salient political *fact* to-day is the increasing amount and power of group-life—trade-unions, professional societies, citizens’ leagues, neighbourhood associations, &c. . . . Group organization is to be the solution of popular government . . . The study of the group process . . . shows us that politics cannot be founded on representative or electoral methods but *must rest on vital modes of association*.’