 | Anwar Shah - 2006 - Страниц: 492
...Charles Metcalfe, provisional governor general of India from 1835 to 1836, described them as follows: The village communities are little republics, having...dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds to revolution; ... but the village community remains the same.... This union of the village communities, each one... | |
 | Santosh Mehrotra, Santosh K. Mehrotra, Enrique Delamonica - 2007 - Страниц: 458
...anarchy in the realm. . . . And in Northern India, Sir Charles Metcalfe had stated in 1 830 that . . . 'they seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty...revolution succeeds to revolution, Hindu, Pathan, Moghal, Mahratta, Sikh, English, are masters in turn, but the Village Communities remain the same.'...... | |
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The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down : revolution succeeds... 
