[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c14.85 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c14.85 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c14.85 - **Language:** English ### [c14.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14.85) Possibly attached to the Koliyan general assembly was a special body of peons, presumably police, bearing a special form of headdress with a drooping crest. They had no equal for their bad conduct and violence.³ The text does not give us more information about them. Such officials might have been a regular feature of the Buddhist republics.⁴ - [Previous: c14.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14.84) - [Next: c14.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14.86) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c14.85) · Pramāṇa