Local Government in Ancient India c17.177.2

c17.177.2

their agreements, 129, 130; authorized to try cases, 133, 134, 135; decided cases without reference to governors, 140-1; maintained tanks, 144, 147-56; executive officers, number and qualifications of, 157-8; executive to be respected by the king, 158, and its decisions enforced, 159; disobedience treated as treason, 159; number and composition of administrative boards, 160-2; had developed different functions and organs, 164-5; various names for these, 184-5; attendance at meetings, 188, 195-6; majority vote, 188-9; validity of meetings, 193; oratory at, 193-5; meeting-place — the village hall, 196-9; full meetings of, 199; accounting to, 200; membership qualifications, 200-2; Brāhmaṇa types of, 202-4; joint action by, 208; absolute proprietors of village lands, 220-1, 229; public works of, 229-31; currency control, 231-2; secretariat and records, 232-3; check to kings, 234, 311; as collectors of royal revenues, 234-7, 253; reception of royal orders by, 238, 239, 240-2; as trustees of royal properties, 243; royal interference with, 243-50; limits to powers of, 246-7; sources of revenue, 251-2, 257-8; distribution of revenue, 252-3; local revenue, 253-4; charges and duties, 254-6; exemptions, 256-7; educational work, 285; efficiency of, in times of famine and unrest, 289-92; protected cultivators, 292; appreciated local patriotism, 292-8; religious spirit of, 298-303; secular benefactions of, 303-4; system of, probably carried from North to South, 306-7;