Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c15.85

c15.85

Theory concedes the same position to corporations as to cultivators. The government must keep them to their proper sphere, set matters right when their chiefs or members misbehave and provide courts of appeal from their decisions, but ordinarily they are allowed to manage their affairs according to their own lights.¹ Epigraphic evidence in the north and more abundant in the south proves that the rights conceded by theory were fully translated into practice.