It had varied functions like defence, administration, social and judicial. To understand the system of functioning, lets take an example: a person not satisfied by the decision of Gram sabha can approach the Tappa panchayat and a assembly of all villages of the Tappa were invited. If still not satisfied with the decision of Tappa, he could approach and call for a khap panchayat involving 360 villages. Everyone from these villages are free to participate.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:07 AM, kiran shaheen <kiranshaheen@gmail.com> wrote:
What is 360 Khap? Please elaborate.Regards,KiranOn Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Babubhai Vaghela <vaghelabd@yahoo.com> wrote:
(1) Focus is scandalous and shamelessly shoddy arrangement called SC
Collegium to hijack positions of highest level Judicial Positions.
(2) I sincerely apologise if I, albeit inadvertantly and certainly not
intentionally, hurt the feelings of any social group persons. .
> *tappa,
On 2/26/13, Diwan Singh <diwans2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> Babulalji,
>
> Thanks for remembering Khap Panchayats. I belong to a village in Delhi that
> comes under the Delhi 360 Khap - popularly known as Palam360 covering
> around 500 villages of Delhi and some from Haryana.
>
> What hurt me is that you compared Khaps with SC collegium, though you
> rightly pointed out that khaps decisions are made in open and democratic. A
> khap is a consensus based decision making practice. Contrary to media
> reports, it never had any violence in its practice, in the past or today.
> Khap is a wall that the invaders might had managed to cross but could never
> demolish.
>
> What is Khap? If there is a problem within the family- all members sit
> together and take decision. If in the colony or village, all residents i.e
> Gram Sabha come together and decide. If in a group of villages, called
> *people from all the tappa villages similarly come together. Khap is a
> third tier institution consisting of about 100 or more villages. A khap or
> a tappa or a Gram Sabha has no police power, nor it ever had in history, as
> its style of working is not based on use of force. People are free to
> refuse its decisions without any fear of violence.
>
> The modern courts have failed all over the world, as we regularly resort to
> mediation centres. As far as settling disputes is concerned, the khaps are
> age old mediation practice.
> Khap is a third tier institution, where no case of sagotra marriage come
> to it. Yet, it has been dragged into it by the media.
>
> It will be too much in detail, if I tell you about Khaps. A little light on
> some features of the khap region will make your understanding clear.
>
> - No Sati Pratha ever
> - Widow Remarriage
> - No bonded labor
> - No feudalism
> - sports orientation
> - Brahmanical ritualism at lowest
> - No animal sacrifice.
> - Pure vegetarianism.
> - Khap regions have been the most crime free regions even in the modern
> day.
>
>
> The 360 villages of Delhi managed to protect themselves from any conversion
> because they could organize, defend and negotiate with the Mughals.
>
> Khaps are the last temples of direct democracy and if destroyed, we may
> never regain. It is difficult to convey the truth in some sentences when
> the reader is already biased with heavy bombardment of media slur. I only
> wish the readers try to learn more about khaps lest we lose something so
> precious. If they are bad, ban them, The Britishers banned them after 1857,
> because in Delhi and all around, it is the khaps who waged that war. But,
> if they are good and useful, we may repent.
>
> The media slur against khaps is not about good or bad; it is about control
> of resources; it is about rural vs urban; it is about centralization vs
> decentralization; it is about capitalism vs socialism.
>
> Diwan Singh 9212061046
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Babubhai Vaghela
> <vaghelabd@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear All, Supreme Court Collegium, to me, is worst than Khap Panchayat
>> that atleast work openly unlike Collegium working secretly. It is
>> hightime that the Collegium is declared Arbitrary, Undemocratic,
>> Illegal and Unconstitutional Body - A Dark Blot on Democracy.
>> Regards,.
>>
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