The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s1.t5.4

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¹ Traces of old rural democracy can still be detected in the administration of certain socio-religious institutions like the gilds of *gambhîrâ* singers and playwrights in Bengal. *Vide* B. K. Sarkar’s *Folk-Element in Hindu Culture* (references to *panchâyat*, *mandala* etc.), pp. 20—22, 66—68. The socio-economic study of the village in Radhakamal Mukerjee’s *Foundations of Indian Economics* (pp. 441—445) is not quite correct in the references to western economic history. And it might have appeared a little bit too romantic were it not for the fact that the possibilities of the village as a political unit even under conditions of the twentieth century science and mechanics are being demonstrated in and through the Russian *Mirs*. *Cf.* Asakawa’s “Contributions of Feudal Japan to New Japan” in the *Journal of Race Development*, July 1912, Gomme’s *Primitive Folkmoots*, pp. 20—69, *Folklore*, 353—364 and *Village Community* 290—295, Seebohm’s *English Village Community*, 437—441, and Ashley’s *Surveys Historic and Economic*, 92—156, Carlyle’s *Med. Pol. Theory*, Vol. III, pp. 28—29, 75. *Vide* Lewinski’s *Origin of Property*.