Features of Mauryan Administration

Q. What does the name Ashoka mean?

1. One with Sorrow
2. One without Sorrow
3. One without Love
4. One with Love

Q. Who was the supreme commander of the army?

1. King
2. Prime minister
3. Senapati
4. Priest

Q. What were the measures taken by the Mauryan emperor to collect taxes?

1. The emperor levied no tax.
2. He appointed officials, who were sent to all parts of the empire to assess and collect taxes.
3. To control the officials, the emperor appointed governors and family members.
4. He had spies all over his kingdom, reporting everything back to him.

Q. Read the following two statements, identify whether each of them is true or false and select the correct option.

Statement I: When members of the same family become rulers one after the other, the political system is called a democracy.

Statement II: The Mauryan dynasty comprised of three important rulers.

1. Both the statements are true.
2. Statement I is false, Statement II is true.
3. Both the statements are false.
4. Statement I is true, Statement II is false.

Q.

When was the ‘Objective Resolution’ passed by the Constituent Assembly?

1. 23^rd January, 1946

2. 22^nd January, 1947

3. 1^st January, 1948

4. 26^th January, 1950

Q. Who kept the king informed about the working of the administrative machinery?

1. Mantriparishad
2. Senapati
3. Intelligence and espionage services
4. Mantris

Q. Arrange the elements of the Mauryan administrative machinery from the most powerful to the least powerful:
I. King,
II. Ministers,
III. King’s representative- Viceroys and Governors,
IV. Subordinate Civil Servants,
V. Heads of Departments,
VI. Rural Administrative Officers.

1. I, II, III, IV, V, VI
2. I, V, II, III, IV, VI
3. I, III, IV, V, II, VI
4. I, III, II, V, IV, VI

Q. who was Ashoka ? when he was born and died ?

Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are wrong?

1. The Mauryans had a Census department to record the births and deaths.
2. The Mauryan central administration took up public welfare schemes.
3. The Mauryans had a no tax policy in their administration.
4. The Mauryan Central Administration had intelligence and espionage services.

Q. Can a difference between republican and monarchical mahajanapadas 1) In republican mahajanapadas their was no hededitary king while in monarchical mahajanapadas Kingship was hereditary .
Or
republican mahajanapadas was not ruled by any king while monarchical mahajanapadas was ruled by a king.
Or the difference u can only tell leaving their examples, sending the image from where u had to tell