Aditi Shekhawat & Ritesh Dhyani, Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
ABSTRACT
The third tier of government which was given constitutional status through the 73rd1 & 74th2 Amendment known as local government institutions are more ancient than National governments. Since time immemorial, local communities were supposed to resolve their local issues by themselves. The history of local government can be traced from their self sufficient and self governing village communities. This system went through several ups and downs in the colonial era. Although local government existed in India in ancient times, in its present structure and style of functioning, it owes existence to the British rule in India. Local self government in India in sense of representative organisation, responsible to a body electors, enjoying wide powers of taxation and administration functioning both as responsible body and vital link in chain of organism that make up the government of country, is a British Creation. Thepresent paper is an attempt to describe the system and regulation of local self government in the Colonial Period. The object of this article is to understand the evolution of the local self government in the Colonial era and the amendments which was brought in the system of local self governance in the Colonial era.
Keywords: Colonial Period, Amendment, Self Governing, Local Government.
