breifly describe the main feature of civil and military administration under Mauryan rule
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civil administration is divided into two main divisions Central Government and the provincial government
he mauryan Government was centralised and was managed by several offices at different times the king was the supreme authority and his Throne was it was also the supreme judge . megasthenes the Greek ambassador at the court of Chandragupta Maurya .in his books Indica and the Arthashastra tell us about the mauryan administration
provincial government : Ashoka maid alterations only in the central government and not in the provincial government during his grandfather's time there were four provinces and after the addition of Kalinga in Ashoka time there were five provinces as shown below head of the province was called Kumar or Arya Putra.
military administration : Chandragupta Maurya maintain use Army consisting of infantry cavalry elephant in chariots according to magasthenes the mauryan Army consisted of 600000 infantry 30,000 cavalry and 9000 war elephants according to another source the mauryans maintain 8000 chariots. the chief weapons used were bows and arrows shields swords etc. the king was the commander in chief of the army the whole Army was under a military commission of 30 members the maryas also had a well Laid recruitment policy the soldiers were paid salary in cash the mauryan king had built forts at strategic places for safety and security of the Empire
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