The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s4.5

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c9.s4.5

The Orient was not poor in such economic centres of civic vitality in ancient and mediæval times. Students of commercial history are generally familiar with Chinese gilds.⁴ But it is not so well known that in India as in China almost every economic function from agriculture to money-lending and banking was organized into a gild.

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