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What are the salient features of the administrative system of the Guptas?
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- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
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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