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River Parliament

• 27/02/2000

For British historians and administrators, Indian villages were self-sustaining units and they termed these units as village republics. Later, this terminology was done away with by historians and sociologists. Although utopian, villages situated along the Arvari river in Alwar district, Rajasthan, have retained the basic essence of a "self-sustaining republic,'

• Tags:
  • Water Harvesting
  • Traditional Knowledge
  • Public Participation
  • Governance
  • NGO
  • Rajasthan

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