Question

explain the administration of chalukyas and pallavas?

Answer 1

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In both the Chaulukyan and Pallavan kingdom, the King was the highest seat of authority. Many, historians believe that the Chalukyan king had unlimited power. He was also the head of justice and the supreme power of the administrative council. The chief queen was known as the Tattamahish'.
The king was assisted by his council of ministers. The Prime Minister was known as the Mahamatya. Other important ministers in his council were the maha-danda-nayaka, or chief judicial officer, sandhi-vigrahika or a minister of war and peace.

One of the most important aspect of their rule was the local governance. Inscriptions state that Pallava villages had local assemblies. These assemblies had diffrent bodies. One of them was the sabha . The sabha comprised of all brahmin landowners. There were also subcommittees. Each of them looked after either roads, irrigation , agriculture etc. In villages were landowners were not Brahmins, a body called ur was formed. Nagarams emerged as bodies of merchants.