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The Cholas are said to have established a strong and well organised administration with an element of self-government at the local level. Do you agree? Give reasons.
- UPSC 2004
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
The proposition packs two claims into one sentence — a strong, centrally organised state and a genuine element of self-government at the local level — and the interesting historical question is not whether each existed in isolation, but whether they were compatible, or whether one necessarily hollowed out the other. The balance of evidence supports…
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- The Case for a Strong, Centrally Organised State
- The Case for Genuine Local Self-Government
- Central Intervention in Practice, and the Geography of Autonomy
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