Excerpt from Local Government in Ancient India
It is reasonable to hope that this important work by Dr. Mookerji, while appealing specially to professed students of Indian institutions, may also attract the attention of a wider circle of readers. The advancing steps of Indian government, aided as time goes on by the guiding hand rather than by the all-sustaining arm of Britain, are a matter of concern to millions of Britons who will never see India. It is our duty, therefore, to admit into the recesses of an obscure and difficult inquiry all the light which can be thrown upon them by comparative study of past annals. India, as Dr. Mookerji reminds us, enjoyed from the earliest dawn of her history a singularly complete system of local government; and he points a moral, not to be ignored by ourselves, that in the absence of modern facilities of communication, and consequently of direction, this fact offers the main explanation of the early existence of great Indian empires, comparable in area to our own.
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