Administration

Grass root administration at the village and town level has been one of the strong points of the Indian civilization.

We have had great kings and empires throughout our history, but it was not a continuous rule. It was more intermittent in nature. Most of kings concentrated more in territory expansion than in day to day governance.

Then where was the continuous and regular governance of the land especially at the village level, which was the backbone of our civilization?

Few of the rulers did focus on governance and had laid down good rules right down to the village level. But these Rulers were few and far between. The beauty of Indian administration was that when these rules and practice were set they were governed at the village level itself, which formed the backbone of our economy.

This capsule looks at methods adopted in administration.