The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c12.s1.t3.30

c12.s1.t3.30

The question of "local government" was therefore an important one to the *gaṇa-râyaṇas* of Buddha's time (B. C. 623—543). It is interesting to observe that the management of affairs of the rural areas of these republics was not the monopoly of the male sex. The laying out of parks, the erection of communal halls, rest-houses and reservoirs, and the construction and mending of roads between village and village were undertaken by men and women in joint committees.¹