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Evaluate the importance of the contributions of the Pallavas in the history of the development of art and administration in South India.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

Ruling from Kanchipuram between the sixth and ninth centuries, the Pallavas left South India two legacies that outlasted their political power by centuries: an institutional template of local self-government and revenue administration that the Cholas later refined into the most elaborate village machinery of early medieval India, and an artistic and linguistic idiom — the…

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  • Administrative Contributions: Building South India's First Durable Institutional Order
  • Kanchi as Political and Cultic Capital
  • Central, Provincial, and Feudatory Structure
  • The Sabha and Ur: Seeds of Local Self-Government
  • Revenue and Taxation
  • Artistic and Cultural Contributions: Beyond the Monument
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