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Self-governance at local levels was part of the administrative system in the pre-colonial Bengal. Provincial kings and nawabs were loosely bound to the Emperor with a pledge of suzrenity that required the payment of certain nominal revenue collected from the proceeds of the land, and trade and commerce. But there was no excercise of absolute power over people's lives or livelihood.
Visiting Europeans to the Mughal Court and the countryside of India were dazzled by the wealth and the well-being of the ordinary citizens. It was incomprehensible to them how a nation can be so prosperous with no amassment of "private property" by the rich and accord so much freedom to people going about practicing their own faith (of which there was a good variety), and doing their cultivation or commerce.
I am not being romantic. New findings and histories are being written these days with facts and evidences that nullify the British lies that India was a backwaed country until they, the British, arrived on the scene. Now we have Jamaatis substituting the British lies.
Establishing local govt. in Bangladesh is not only a priority, it is almost a panacea.
Farida Majid
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:05:54 -0700
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