Module 5: Poetics and Politics of Urban Spaces
  Lecture 31: The Gemeinschaft in the City: Urban Neighbourhoods
 



The panch along with other community organizations organized people’s lives outside their professional context. Along with the panch there was another organization called the Adarsh Mitra Mandal society that managed many matters of the pol such as the nursery schools and traditional gymnasium known as akhada. Yuvak mandals along with the mahila mandal of the pol celebrated religious festivals such as Holi, Navratri, as well as 15th Aug, 26th Jan and community feasts.