Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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8. The obligation not to marry in the gens except in specified cases.
9. The right to adopt strangers in the gens.
10. The right to elect and depose its Chiefs.
The Roman and Iroquois Gens had almost similar patterns with insignificant differences."
Tribal Nature
The items Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 are self-evident. They are tribal in nature. Morgan has given these characteristics of the Grecian gens in the first half of the first millennium B. C. The Greekāryans had by that time coalesced with the Cretan and pre-Olympian people of Greece and the Egean had assimilated many of their habits, customs, laws and institutions. These characteristics are of the Grecian gens formed after such admixture and commingling of two opposite cultures; the one superior in arms and the other superior in peace. The Greekāryans begun a settled life after Dorian military conquests finally established their political suzerainty Circa 1000 B. C. Till that time, property belonged to the genos, not to any member of it. When the individual families comprising a genos began to assert their independence due to the impact of new forces; the authority of the genos over the tribal property began to grow weaker. The pre-Aryan Greeks had developed the institutions of private property. The Greekāryans had now vast control over lands and other natural resources. Every family could be independently satisfied. The environment of the hardships of nature and want of material objects had gone. Progress and prosperity had downed. The Greekāryans borrowed the system of private property and succession from their vanquished adversaries. The incorporation of the right of succession in the Grecian gens is a foreign intrusion,