Critically analyse the administrative system in the post-Mauryan period

Administration System of the Mauryan period .

• The Mauryas not only built a vast empire, covering practically in the entire sub- continent and extending beyond it in the north-west, but also  integrated it by adopting a suitable administrative system.

• The administrative set-up established by Chandragupta Maurya , the founder of the Mauryan dynasty, continued under his  successors and no change was felt necessary except that Ashoka tried to liberalise it further and elaborated the public duties of the state  officials. The basic principles of Mauryan administration remained the same till the weaker Mauryas lost their hold over the administration.

• Three major sources viz., Kautilya’s Arthashastra , Megasthenes’ Indica and Ashokan inscriptions provide necessary information on Mauryan administration.

• On the basis of the Arthashastra and the Indica many scholars put forwarded the idea of a highly centralised and uniform structure of Mauryan  administration. This idea was prevailed for a long time but now scholars like Romila Thapar, Gerard Fussman have modified this view.

• In general Mauryan state was a monarchy with a powerful king at the centre of the political system. The Mauryan kings were guided by the  Council of Ministers and followed the advice of the Arthashastra. They regarded the welfare and interests of their subjects more important than  their own interests (Yoga-khema). Ashoka declared in one of his inscriptions that all his subjects were like his ____ ________ ______ __________ __________ _______ ___ ___ ______ ________ __________.
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