English man has great for the Panchayats, in the British government the rural panchayats of India started vanishing for a number of reasons. In the British states the state revenue was collected from the individual and not from the village as a whole. The work of collecting revenue was also taken away from the panchayats and handed over to government officials. The disturbances of the village came under the authority of the police.
This served to reduce further the responsibility and the rights of the panchayats. Civil and criminal cases were dealt within the official courts. As a result the panchayats were deprived of their judicial rights. As a result of industrialisations and urbanisation the rural community disintegrated; the consequence of this was the disintegration of the panchayat organisation. The influence of western civilisation result in the strengthening of the individualistic tendency and the weakening of communal felling. The panchayats were no longer respected.
A long time before India became independent some attention was given to the reconstruction of rural communities. The Royal Commission of Decentralisation of 1909 placed particular emphasis upon the fact that the panchayats should be organised and developed in order to establish local self-government in the village. In 1915 a bill was passed and the instructions were issued to the provincial government that full efforts should be made to initiate panchayats in the villages, through co-operatives.
In the Act of 1919 special emphasis was laid on the same policy. Following this village panchayst acts were passed in different Provinces in 1919 in West Bengal, in 1920 in Bombay, central province and U.P after this the government of Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Travancore, Cochin, Punjab, Mysore, Baroda and Indore followed suit and passed village panchayat Acts.