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A Boy, a Pot and Thirty Wards — How a Tamil village chose its leaders by lot, and rewrote its own rules in 921
In about 921, a Tamil village chose its committees by lot from a pot, barred men who hid their accounts, and then rewrote its own rules. The wall at Uttaramērūr does not prove ancient democracy. It shows something more useful, rules that were corrected.
Nithin Palal
9 hours ago29 min read
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