By Fabian Lyngdoh The dorbar-shnongs had existed in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills as modern indigenous grassroots institutions before the formation of the state of Meghalaya. However, they functioned only as informal and non-statutory local bodies. Statutory village courts under the acts of the district councils are not constituted at the level of the modern […]

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