The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s1.t2.5

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¹ *Early Hist. of the Dek.*, sec. VIII. Evidences of *smriti* and *nîti sâstras* have been generally avoided by the present author in the study of institutions. Majumdar's references (p. 60) to Visnu III, 7, 11 and Manu VII, 115, 116 are irrelevant. The village, of course, must always have been a territorial unit of administration. But the assembly of the village folk is an altogether different phenomenon which needs a separate evidence, such for instance as can be furnished from south Indian inscriptions. His references (p. 66) to Nârada X and Brihaspati XVII are not convincing, for nobody is entitled to postulate about the constitution of a rural assembly all that is known about the gild organization.