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Write short essay of not more than 200 words on: Democratic elements in the political system of the early Vedic period.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

The early Vedic polity was fundamentally a tribal, martial order centred on the rajan — not a democracy in the modern sense, but one carrying genuine participatory features.

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