Local Government in Ancient India c17.76

c17.76

Eloquence, appreciated, 184, 185-6, 194; prayers for, 194 Embezzlement, 233, 246 Emergencies, the test of government, 289 Emperors, made few administrative innovations, 9 Empires, vast, difficult to govern, 7-8; problem of, not wholly mechanical, 8: Mauryan solution, 8-10; Mill on, 10-11 (note) Endowments, 94, 95-6, 97, 98, 116 (note), 148, 149, 154, 166, 168, 169, 271-89, 299 Enemies of guilds, 72, 74; of municipalities, 143, 148, 213, 221 Engineers, 71, 86, 98, 122 England, magnitude of local business in, 5; Elizabethan, 16 Engraving on copper and stone, 239, 240, 242, 262 Epic references to guilds, 44-6 Epics, 283 *Epigraphia Carnatica*, 241, 261, 286, 287, 288; — *Indica*, 89, 90, 91, 97, 101, 117, 153, 155, 182, 184, 228, 238, 279, 281, 295 Epigraphic evidence, confirms literary evidence, 88; summarized and that of N. and S. India compared, 115-19, 122-3, 164-5, 305-7 (and *see* Inscriptions) Eran Sattan, shepherd, 95-6 Erotics, science of, 282 Europe, individualism of, 23; democratic evolution in, 24 Evidence in writing, 138 Ewes, 95, 104 (note), 152 (note) Exchange rates, 105 (note), 151-2 (note) Excommunication, 260, 270 Expiatory ceremonies, 177 Export duty, 268 Exports, restriction of, 163-4 Expropriation, 240 Extortion, 141, 260, 297