Crossword-Solution: PANCHAYATS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Let your law-courts with their cumbersome and ruinous procedure disappear, and India will set up her old _Panchayats_, in which justice will be dispensed in accordance with her own conscience.

The village panchayats would be now a living force in a special way, and India would almost be enjoying self-government suited to its requirements and would have been spared the humiliating spectacle of organised assassination on its sacred soil.

The boycott of Lawyers and Law Courts means the destruction of existing legal institutions; and the formation of Panchayats means the creation of agencies through which justice may be administered.

These chains are also suspended to the trees near the temples of village goddesses, and used by village panchayats to swear the accused in any trial before them." It is narrated [187] by Moor that he "passed a tree, on which were hanging several hundred bells.

Justice, however, has long been left to work its own way, and the self-constituted tribunals, the panchayats, sit in judgment in all cases where property is involved.