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Question
With reference to the Chola period explain the following:
The three types of village assemblies.
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Solution
The three types of village assemblies were as follows:
- ‘ur’ — the assembly of common villages.
- ‘Sabha’ — the assembly of Brahmins.
- ‘nagaram’ — the assembly of merchants
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