Mukhi

Mukhi (mukhia) is the title used for a head of community or village elites[1] and their local government in Western India and Sindh.[2] It is derived from the word mukhiya meaning 'foremost', and prior to Indian independence they were the most powerful person in each community, imbued with both civil and judicial powers.[3][4]

  1. ^ India's Villages. Development Department, West Bengal, 1955
  2. ^ Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India. Vinayak, Chaturvedi, University of California Press, 2007
  3. ^ The Thakors of north Gujarat: a caste in the village and the region. Studies in sociology and social anthropology, Lobo, Lancy. Hindustan Pub. Corp., 1995. ISBN 8170750350
  4. ^ Tribe, Volumes 2-6. Tribal Research Institute (Rajasthan, India). Tribal Research Institute and Training Centre, 1966