Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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corporate property. Athenian council was a popular representative body of the enfranchised Athenians. The Athenian republic was a sort of Tribal Democracy.
Morgan is not sure that the right of election and deposition of the chiefs obtained in the Greece in the first half of the first millennium B. C. The republican traits that the Hellenes borrowed from their Minoan adversaries did not lead them to evolve a people's republic but gave them only a Tribal Democracy. The victorious nations are not in the habit of leaving their basic institutions and the Hellenes, like the Brāhmaṇas, were no exception. They retained their withering gentile organisations and adapted themselves to the forces of time and the environment of the land. That they never did with conviction and faith. They never enfranchised the whole people and no republic can be established without the willing co-operation of all the people inhabiting the land. The Greek experiment of Tribal Democracy was, therefore, a failure.
The ideas of family, private property, succession and republicanism are foreign to the basic conception of gens or Gaņa. The Tribal collective system pre-supposes commonalty. Tribal property, unfathered children and undisputed loyalty are the basic characteristics of the gens or Gaņa. The Greekāryans, like Brahmāryans, borrowed the ideas of Family, Private Property and the State from the pre-Aryan Minoan culture and civilization.
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