Sentence examples for village assembly from inspiring English sources

Last year she was the first woman to be offered an official position in the village assembly.

Despite initial opposition, the zero waste declaration, passed by the village assembly in 2003, has spawned an unlikely army of ecowarriors.

The peasants organized themselves through their traditional village assembly, the mir, to decide when and how to seize the land or property of the landlords.

She then made it into a village assembly of spaces, enriched with things such as a shared hearth and a meandering, river-like length of water.

The village assembly was responsible for collecting government land taxes.

References to administration includes the chiefs, superintendents, titles of ministers, palace of merchants and the village assembly.

For example, the party has not clarified its stand on Khap panchayats, or small-scale village assemblies.

He trained Indian catechists, or instructors, to organize village assemblies throughout the mountains and jungles of the diocese.

Nehru is pleased at the progress of India: their two great acheivements are education and establishment of village assemblies, which extend the democratic way of life.

All over the country, land settlement commissions were at work surveying, redrawing boundaries, and negotiating with the village assemblies on behalf of the new smallholders.

Because conformity to the social order had precedence over allegiance to the state, the idea of representation found expression not so much in political institutions as in caste and village assemblies.