The Mauryan Polity c8.s3.t9.1

c8.s3.t9.1

The economic purposes for which the State expended lavishly were many and varied. Some of these were industrial and manufacturing establishments, such as factories, manufactories, exploitation of the forests, mines, and treasure troves, construction of big irrigation works, and aid to co-operative irrigation schemes, construction of dams and embankments, help to the new settlements of villages, grants and loans to agricultural classes, regulation of trade and commerce, and regulation of banking and currency etc. In fine the State aimed at the nationalisation of industries including that of agriculture. Need it be said that the investments under these heads were heavy and even abnormal?