SSC
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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A series of texts
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They were the tribes of India
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A group of hills
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An extinct species used to travel from place to place
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Vedic samhitas, the term jana denotes a tribe, whose members believed in a shared ancestry. The janas were headed by a king. The samiti was a common assembly of the jana members, and had the power to elect or dethrone the king. The sabha was a smaller assembly of wise elders, who advised the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vedic people used the term Jana to designate a group of people, united under a common bond of singular kinship structure. Their settlement was known as ‘Grama’. A cluster of gramas consisting of the same Jana was known by the name of that particular Jana. A region occupied by a Janas was called as Janapada.
Detailed explanation-3: -Janapadas refer to the early villages that came up around the fertile area of the gangetic plains. Here people of the same tribe came together to practice agriculture and soon villages came up. These villages were known as Janapadas. They were governed by the village headman.