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The village was the basic unit of administration in ancient India. References to village councils are found in Vedas and the Jatakas. The traditional rights of the village communities and their powers of self-government were found protected under Mauryan Empire . The villages continued to organize works of public utility and recreation, resolve disputes of residents and act of trustees for properties of minors. Kautilya gave an elaborate classification of the villages for revenue, economic and defences purposes with no reference to village councils. The local government have flourished in India since the times immemorial. The early history of India gives evidence of villages as the basic units of social and economic life and of the existence of some kind of village government. They may be elective and non-elective but carried out local affairs in an open assembly and received a great degree of habitual obedience from the villagers. As village government, the local government functioned like little republics. They enjoyed a considerable number of powers in financial, administrative, development, commercial and socio-culture spheres. This body politic of village communities lived autonomously like tiny states.

A STUDY OF TRIBAL VILLAGE COUNCIL: KEBA, ITS STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND POWER

"A STUDY OF TRIBAL VILLAGE COUNCIL: KEBA, ITS STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND POWER", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 7, page no.f482-f499, July-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2407565.pdf

"A STUDY OF TRIBAL VILLAGE COUNCIL: KEBA, ITS STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND POWER", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 7, page no. ppf482-f499, July-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2407565.pdf