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How could the local self-government under the Cholas adjust with their centralised administrative structure?
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- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
A centralized monarchy and a network of self-managing village assemblies are not, on the face of it, natural companions — one implies command flowing downward, the other implies decision-making retained locally — yet the Chola polity ran both simultaneously for centuries without the tension between them producing chronic instability. The reconciliation worked because the Cholas…
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- A Functional Division of Labour, Not a Contest for the Same Powers
- Royal Presence and Oversight Embedded Within Local Proceedings
- Uniform Conventions and Shared Compensation Binding the Two Levels
- Revenue-Sharing That Bound the Two Levels Together
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