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 KHE Statement showing the tribal distribution of property in district Kheri. Parganas. Bralunan, Musalman. Kágath. Kurni. Gosháín. Blacksmith. Carpenter and Gaddi. Pasi. Balvär. BaPiáu. pe Aurangabad, 314 10 Atwa Piparia, 26 Pasgawan ... 163 85 Kasta 54 Muhamdi ** 21 491 Magdapur 29 Sikandarabad, 26 Haidarabad ... 3 99 Kheri 3 2 Srinagar Paila 3 Karanpur 29 Kukra Mailáni, ... 19 Bhúc 90 Dhadraht ... 6 Khairigarh ... Firozabad Niglaaan Palia . European Thákur. LO: NORMA Governwert. 4 205 27 161 68 136 91 81 7 193 145 69 58 10 164 17 70 91 3 50 93 83 3058 ..... ... ......to 25/11 8 61 25... 31 21 3 7 21 -... *** 61... 16' 26 21 6 12 315 *** 1 2.... 1 2 4 9 5 ........................... 17 .. 9 1663........ 6 188 411 1. 20 7 ....... 11 ................. 15 11 2 + 13 15 4 1099 .................... 18 45 2 42 2 ....... 10 "1" 2 88 ++*.. ... 110 63 33 1...3 14. To:111:4w: - .. .. . . . . 9 . Tatal 188 363363983348503115 124; 288 888 2,651 11 9 14 2 1,490 Villoge communities or talujas, the first form of society. It is a mat- ter of considerable historical interest in each district of Oudh to deter- mine whether village communities or taluqas are the original form of pro- perty and of society; it is the oriental form of the dispute between monarchy and democracy. I will exhibit the result derived from long experience of Kheri society and study of its history. As usual in such cases both sides can point to many undoubted instances in which one or other system prevailed from the very commence- ment of tradition. If we examine aboriginal tribes now scattered over the country like the Nágas, Sontháls, and Thárus of Kheri, we find dis- tinct republics, property or quasi-property in land evenly divided, juris- diction confined to the assembly of the elders, not necessarily of the caste: On the other hand, we know from the Pvámáyan and Mabábhárata that monarchial forms of government existed from the very earliest period of Arian ascendancy three thousand years ago ; and Hwen Thsang, in the 7th century A.D, only found one republic among about 160 little princi- palities in India. It is not enough to say that circurostances in each case will determine what form of Government will be assumed; we want to know what are the circumstances which have induced the Hindu society of Unao, for
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