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WHAT IS SABHA?
In the Chola Empire, Brahmanas often received land grants or brahmadeya. Each brahmadeya was looked after by an assembly of prominent Brahmana landholders called a Sabha. These assemblies worked very efficiently. Inscriptions from Uttaramerur in Chingleput district, Tamil Nadu, provide details of the way in which the sabha was organised. The sabha had separate committees to look after irrigation works, gardens, temples, etc. Names of those eligible to be members of these committees were written on small tickets of palm leaf and kept in an earthenware pot, from which a young boy was asked to pick the tickets, one by one for each committee.


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