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Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.56

Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.56

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c41.56

We find from Aśoka's inscriptions that the emperor made an order that the Ministers at Takshaśilā were to go out of office every three years, and new ministers to be sent instead.¹ From other provincial capitals the ministers were changed every five years; but an exception was made in the case of the Government at Takshaśilā and that at Ujjayinī.