'Kalinga is a democracy' - WHAT???
Those people who made the English subtitles - I wonder what they were thinking.
What was the actual Hindi word? And what does it _really_ mean?
I think, this sentence alludes to the film's description of Kalinga as being reigned by a gana-sangha system, which can be described as a republic or oligarchy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy#India:
The main characteristics of the gana seem to be a monarch, usually called raja and a deliberative assembly. The assembly met regularly in which at least in some states attendance was open to all free men, and discussed all major state decisions. It had also full financial, administrative, and judicial authority. Other officers, who are rarely mentioned, obeyed the decisions of the assembly. The monarch was elected by the gana and apparently he always belonged to a family of the noble K'satriya Varna. The monarch coordinated his activities with the assembly and in some states along with a council of other nobles.
cited from Robinson Eric W., The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3515069518
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