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‖ sabha|səˈbɑː|
[Hind. sabhā assembly.]
In India, an assembly; a council or society (see quots.). Cf. Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha.
1922A. B. Keith in Cambr. Hist. India I. iv. 96 The power of the king [in Vedic India] cannot have been in normal circumstances arbitrary or probably very great. There stood beside him as the mode of expression of the will of the people the assembly, which is denoted by the terms samiti and sabha in the Saṃhitā. 1936J. Nehru Autobiogr. xli. 323 All manner of allied or sympathetic or advanced organisations had been declared unlawful—kisan sabhas and peasant unions. 1950M. Masani Our Growing Human Family vii. 66 Some of these ancient Indian republics were extremely democratic... They had popular assemblies of all the people called the samiti and a parliament elected by the people called the sabha. 1968Jrnl. Mus. Acad. Madras XXXIX. 119 Hardly 250 to 300 kritis are sung in the concerts of today—in spite of the availability of Music Sabhas. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 747/3 Sabhā.., an important unit of self-government in Hindu society. It is basically an association of persons who have common interests, such as members of the same endogamous groups, but may also be an intercaste group (e.g., a mazdūr sabhā, or association of labourers). The sabhā differs from the pan̄cāyat (caste or subcaste council) in that its scope is much larger. |