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Discuss the provincial and district administrative units of the Gupta Empire with the designations and functions of the officers.
- UPSC 2014
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
The Gupta polity is often described as a loosely-knit paramountcy rather than a tightly centralised bureaucratic state, and this character is nowhere more visible than in its layered structure of provincial, district and sub-district administration, where royally appointed officers coexisted with hereditary local functionaries and self-governing town bodies.
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- The Provincial Tier: Bhukti
- The District Tier: Vishaya
- Sub-District and Village Administration
- Revenue Officers Linking the Tiers
- Nature of the System
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