Indian Village Community
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co-villagers · the village-community
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Indian communal body cited as an example of five-person councils.
The Council of an Indian Village Community most commonly consists of five persons, and throughout the East the normal number of a Jury or Board of arbitrators is always five—the punchayet familiar to all who have the smallest knowledge of India.
The co-villagers of an Indian village call themselves brothers, although, as I have frequently observed, the composition of the community is often artificial and its origin very miscellaneous.
Ancient Law
A communal landholding institution in India, cited as comparable to the medieval Fief.
It had much in common with an Indian Village Community and much in common with a Highland clan.