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What are the salient features of the administrative system of the Guptas?

  • UPSC 2005
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

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The Gupta administrative system is often read through a Mauryan lens and found wanting — less centralised, less bureaucratic, more dependent on local intermediaries — but this comparison can obscure the system's own logic, which combined an exalted, semi-divine kingship at the centre with a deliberately layered structure of provincial, district and village bodies that…

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  • Kingship and the Central Secretariat
  • Provincial Administration: the Bhukti
  • District Administration: the Vishaya
  • Sub-District and Village Administration
  • Revenue Administration
  • The Historiographical Debate: Centralisation or Decentralisation?
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