↑S.K. Chandhoke, Nature and structure of rural habitations, Concept Publishing Company, 1990, ISBN978-81-7022-253-8, ... Chaupal plays a very important role in the village life ... at the intersection of the two main streets ... a banyan or pipal tree ... panchayat are held at the chaupal ... Villagers sit at the chaupal, smoke, play cards and do other things ... barat/janet which comes from the boy's village is lodged at the chaupal ...
↑Meredeth Turshen, Briavel Holcomb, Women's lives and public policy: the international experience, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, ISBN978-0-275-94523-7, ... This common fund sustained certain aspects of the social life of the village; it had formerly paid for the upkeep of the chaupal or guest house in which villagers offered hospitality to visitors, passersby, and, most important, for events such as the wedding of a daughter of the village ...
↑International Organization For Migration, Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in Asia, Academic Foundation, 2008, ISBN978-81-7188-573-2, ... sit and discuss their problems, celebrate their pleasures, share the pains of an individual, family or a particular group, sort out their disputes ... a sacred place of secular nature ... guarantees freedom of speech and expression to everybody ...