Local Government in Ancient India c6.s3.1

c6.s3.1

It may perhaps be objected that the so-called democratic institutions, such as the village communities of ancient and mediaeval India, are merely survivals or continuations of tribal communism developing by mere aggregations and worked into compound forms. To make this objection is to mistake the fundamental tendencies reflected in the history of the evolution of tribal communities. That history shows that such communities may be either of the following types: