Question

note on village administration of the gonds? lesson is development in tribal communities

Answer 1

Administration of the Gonds:

• They practised shifting cultivation.
• The large Gond tribe was further divided into many smaller clans.
• Each clan had its own raja or rai. About the time that the power of the Delhi Sultans was declining, a few large Gond kingdoms were beginning to dominate the smaller Gond chiefs.
• The Akbar Nama, a history of Akbar’s reign, mentions the Gond kingdom of Garha Katanga that had 70,000 villages.
• The administrative system of these kingdoms was centralised.
• The kingdom was divided into garhs. Each garh was controlled by a particular Gond clan.
• This was further divided into units of 84 villages called chaurasi.
• The chaurasi was subdivided into barhots which were made up of 12 villages each.