Local Government in Ancient India c6.s2.3

c6.s2.3

It is too often forgotten that a great deal of socialism and communism (representing advanced democratic ideals of the modern age) is held in solution in the Indian social system. It finds appropriate expression through various institutions which all imply strong collectivistic or communistic sense and intuitions in the people, combined with a due restraint of that aggressive individualism and keen proprietary instinct which, under the influence of the Roman Jurisprudence, emphasizing private property and the sacredness of creditors’ rights over those of debtors, have given, in the opinion of the most thoughtful sociologists and political philosophers, a somewhat wrong direction to the development of nations and states in Europe.