This is the fascinating and ennobling history of Sorade, a village near Shivamogga. Its modern name is Choradi. For the longest time, Sorade was an independent and self-governing village republic not under the control of any king. It took pride in describing itself as an Agrahara in which all people
The fourth part of this series traces Kautilya's extraordinarily enduring blueprint for village administration and how it revealed itself throughout Hindu history.
