The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s1.t1.8

c10.s1.t1.8

This cooperation in communal politics was not however the monopoly of men. Women also were proud to be partners in works of public utility.³ Such was the local government in republican India in which the *dramatis personae* of the *Jâtakas* or Buddhist story-literature used to participate previous to the epoch of Maurya Imperialism (B. C. 322).