...their successive^ dominations in the land, but the theocratic rural villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the...potter amid all these shocks and changes, steadfast and unchangeable, for 3,000 years, Macedonian, Mongol, and Mahratta, and Portuguese, Dutch, and French...

...coming and going as a rock bV" the fcising and falling of the tide ; and there at his daily -work hassat the hereditary village potter amid all these shocks and changes, steadfast and unchangeable, for 3,000 years, Macedonian, Mongol, and Mahratta, and Portuguese, Dutch, and French...

...successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide V This is indeed an echo of an earlier utterance of Sir Charles Metcalfe : ' The village communities...

...successive dominations in the land ; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide '.' This is indeed an echo of an earlier utterance of Sir Charles Metcalfe : ' The village communities...

...successive dominations in the land; but the religious trade union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the trade. Thus, village panchayats are entirely India's own institution (Bhargava andRamarao, 1978). Till...

...successive dominations in the land; but the religious trades-union villages have remained as little affected by their coming and going as a rock by the rising and falling of the tide. (Mookerji 1958, p. 2) Evidence suggests that self-governing village communities have always existed...