Local Government in Ancient India c6.s3.4

c6.s3.4

The first type is characteristic of the so-called Aryan peoples and follows a line of evolution which in Europe developed into the democratic city-states, with further differentiation of functions, and the control of particularist tendencies by the development of central organs and by means of segregation, geographical as well as cultural; while in India the type culminated in the democratic institutions for the expression of corporate life, rural and urban.