Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c8.16

c8.16

**Normal Administrative Machinery.** We have already referred to the many Viceroys and Governors whom the Mauryan emperor placed in charge of the different provinces and local governments among which the burden of Imperial Administration from headquarters was conveniently distributed. But it is to be noted that each such Viceroyalty or Governorship was functioning like a State by itself after the pattern and standard laid down for it in the time-honoured science and theory of Hindu polity. Every State in the Hindu scheme of polity thus adopted a prescribed system of government and corresponded to the type and structure of administrative machinery laid down as the standard.