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Evaluating various theories regarding the Chola State, throw light on its village assemblies.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

How a historian reads the Chola village assembly depends almost entirely on which model of the Chola state they hold in the first place — a centralized-bureaucratic reading produces a village assembly that is a supervised administrative cog, a segmentary or decentralized reading produces one that is the very locus of real political power, and…

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  • Nilakanta Sastri's Centralized Bureaucratic Empire
  • Burton Stein's Segmentary State
  • R.S. Sharma's Indian Feudalism Thesis
  • Epigraphic-Quantitative Correctives: Karashima, Subbarayalu, Heitzman, Veluthat
  • Evaluating the Theories Against the Village Assembly Evidence

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