What were the source of income for regional kingdom ?
How were they used ?
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1. Introduction
Objectives
Themes
2. Comics
Cholas
3. Key Concepts
Introduction
The Emergence of New Dynasties
Administration in the Kingdoms
Prashastis and Land Grants
Warfare for Wealth
A Closer Look - The Cholas
4. Quiz
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5. Did You Know?
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Chapter 2 - New Kings And Kingdoms
Our Pasts - II
Administration in the Kingdoms
Kings shared their administrative power with samantas, Brahmans, traders, and associations of peasants.
Peasants, cattle-keepers, artisans, and all those who produced something, had to pay taxes or rents, and traders had to pay revenue.
Under the Chola dynasty, there were around 400 different types of taxes, from which vetti (forced labour), and kadamai (land revenue) were the most common.
The reasons of collecting taxes were; to fulfil the finance of the king's establishments, to build temples and forts, and to fight wars.
The high positions at kingdoms including the army, were appointed either by hereditary or through influential families.