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Panchayati raj

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The Panchayat raj is a South Asian political system found mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nepal. [1]

31 relations: Allied Publishers, Baghpat, Balwantrai Mehta, Bangladesh, Charles Hobhouse, Constitution, Darogha, Decentralization, Five-Year Plans of India, Governance, Gram panchayat, India, Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru, Khap, Local government, Mahatma Gandhi, Mukhi, Pakistan, Panchayat (disambiguation), Panchayat (Nepal), Panchayati raj (India), Participation (decision making), Political system, Sarpanch, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Swaraj, The Discovery of India, Trinidad and Tobago, Zamindar.

Allied Publishers

Allied Publishers is an Indian-based academic and literary publishing house, established in 1934 by M. Graham Brash, the Company was acquired by the late Mr.

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Baghpat

Baghpat (बाघपत or बाग़पत, باغپت) is a city of NCR and a Municipal board in Baghpat district in western Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Balwantrai Mehta

Balwantrai Mehta (–) was an Indian politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Gujarat state, India.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Charles Hobhouse

Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse, 4th Baronet, TD, PC, JP (30 June 1862 – 26 June 1941) was a British Liberal politician.

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Constitution

A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.

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Darogha

Daroghas (داروغہ) were police officials in the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.

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Decentralization

Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.

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Five-Year Plans of India

From 1947 to 2017, the Indian economy was premised on the concept of planning.

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Governance

Governance is all of the processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, a market or a network, over a social system (family, tribe, formal or informal organization, a territory or across territories) and whether through the laws, norms, power or language of an organized society.

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Gram panchayat

A gram panchayat (village council) is the only grassroots-level of panchayati raj formalised local self-governance system in India at the village or small-town level, and has a sarpanch as its elected head.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.

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Khap

A Khap is a community organisation representing a clan or a group of related clans.

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Local government

A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Mukhi

Mukhi (mukhia) is title used for a head of community or village elitesIndia's Villages.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Panchayat (disambiguation)

Panchayat may refer to.

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Panchayat (Nepal)

Panchayat (पञ्चायत) was the political system of Nepal from 1960 to 1990.

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Panchayati raj (India)

In India, the Panchayati Raj generally refers to the system introduced by the constitutional amendment in 1992, although it is based upon the traditional ''panchayat'' system of South Asia.

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Participation (decision making)

Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions – and ideally exert influence – regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions.

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Political system

A political system is a system of politics and government.

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Sarpanch

A sarpanch is an elected head of the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the panchayat (village government) in India (gram panchayat).

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South Asia

South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Swaraj

Swarāj (स्वराज "self", raj "rule") can mean generally self-governance or "self-rule", and was used synonymously with "home-rule" by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and later on by Mahatma Gandhi, but the word usually refers to Gandhi's concept for Indian independence from foreign domination.

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The Discovery of India

The Discovery of India was written by India's first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra, India.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

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Zamindar

A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati_raj

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