 | 1886 - 136 страници
...account of the Indian village communities is also worth quoting here. "The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down... | |
 | Baden Henry Baden-Powell - 1892 - 1136 страници
...any question. Here is one, which has become almost classical ' : — ' The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last when nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down... | |
 | Joseph Gladding Pangborn - 1900 - 296 страници
...Elphinstone, the greatest of the historical authorities on India, says : " The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves and almost independent of any foreign relation. They seem to last when nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down,... | |
 | Panchanandas Mukherji - 1915 - 570 страници
...following lines —"The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of...foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down ; revolution succeeds to revolution ; Hindu, Pathan, Mogul,... | |
 | Pramathanath Banerjea - 1915 - 384 страници
...worth quoting: " The view. village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of...foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution ; Hindu, Pathan, Mogul,... | |
 | Robert Niven Gilchrist - 1920 - 276 страници
...of Lord Metcalfe : The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they can want within themselves, and almost independent of...foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down ; revolution succeeds revolution ; Hindu, Pathan, Mughal,... | |
 | Senarat Paranavitana, Leelananda Prematilleka, Johanna Engelberta van Lohuizen-De Leeuw - 1978 - 346 страници
...1830 by a Company official, Sir Charles Metcalf, when he argued that " the village communities are little Republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations ".5 To Maine, as to the earlier writers, the structure of the village communities... | |
 | Marvin G. Davis - 1983 - 260 страници
...Indian village that dates as early as 1 830, when Charles Metcalfe wrote. The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down... | |
 | Michael S. Kimmel - 1990 - 268 страници
...Charles Metcalfe, writing of India in 1832 (cited in Migdal, 1974: 50): "The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down;... | |
 | Sharada Rath, S. C. Jena - 1993 - 224 страници
...of closed and isolated villages which charles Metcalfe described in the early 1 9th century as: x\.. little republics having nearly everything they want within themselves and almost independent of any foreign relation".23 The rural society in India thus has been changing rapidly particularly after... | |
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The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. 
