Local Government in Ancient India c16.6

c16.6

The first characteristic feature of these Indian local bodies is that they are not uniformly composed and constituted. They present a variety of types. The principle of the association is not always the same. As in the sphere of the central government, Indian political evolution has realized itself through diverse types of state and not the one uniform and invariable autocratic or theocratic type, as is too commonly supposed, similarly, even in the smaller sphere of local government, there has been a considerable diversity of political growths.