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“Do you agree that the system of land grants from the Gupta-Vakataka period was connected with the decentralization of state in any way?”
- UPSC 2019
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
The question asks for a judgment, not a description, and the honest judgment is qualified agreement: the land-grant evidence from Gupta-Vakataka charters is real and substantial, the mechanism by which such grants could erode central authority is logically coherent, but the inference that this mechanism actually produced decentralization on the scale claimed by the classical…
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- The practice as it appears in Gupta-Vakataka charters
- The decentralization thesis: R.S. Sharma and the "Indian feudalism" model
- The counter-case
- Weighing the two positions for the Gupta-Vakataka case specifically
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