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Write brief essay on Local self-government under the Cholas.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

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The Chola polity of the ninth to thirteenth centuries built one of the most elaborately differentiated systems of local self-government known to early medieval India, resting not on a single village body but on three distinct institutions — the ur, the sabha, and the nagaram — each suited to a different kind of settlement and…

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  • The Territorial Scaffolding Within Which Local Bodies Sat
  • Three Kinds of Village Underlying the Assembly System
  • The Ur: The General Assembly of the Ordinary Village
  • The Sabha: The Elaborate Machinery of the Brahmadeya Village
  • The Nagaram: The Assembly of the Trading Town
  • Functions Shared Across the Three Bodies
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