ABSTRACT
WE have been considering the nature of the village unit, the principles of grouping on which it is based and the factors which give it identity and unity both in fact and in its own conception of itself. We have seen the multiple ties holding it together and giving it a sense of solidarity. We must now consider the economic life of the community in so far as it bears on the question of the organisation of authority within the village. And we shall do well not to argue from solidarity to centralisation.
