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How did Shivaji organise his administration and finances to consolidate his power?

  • UPSC 2010
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Shivaji's greatest achievement, beyond his military conquests, lay in converting scattered Maratha resistance into a functioning state with durable civil, military and fiscal institutions.

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  • Central Administration: The Ashtapradhan
  • Provincial and Local Government
  • Revenue and Fiscal Organisation
  • Military Organisation
  • Judicial Administration

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