HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Sannidhata or High Treasurer
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Karmika or Clerk
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Samaharta or Collector General
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Adhyaksha or Superintendent of Departments
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Detailed explanation-1: -Option C) Samartha or Collector General-Samaharta or the Collector General was in charge of the collection of revenue for the whole kingdom.
Detailed explanation-2: -Officers named ‘Samahartha’ and ‘Sanidatta’ were in charge of the tax collection during the Mauryan Empire. They were also custodians of the royal treasury.
Detailed explanation-3: -Revenue Officer is the supervision of the assessment and collection of all Taxes in his jurisdiction.
Detailed explanation-4: -Revenue collection was the responsibility of a collector-general (samaharta) who was also in charge of exchequer that he was, in effect, like a minister of finance. He had to supervise all the provinces, fortified towns, mines, forests, trade routes and others, which were the sources of revenue.
Detailed explanation-5: -Answer. The administration of revenue involved collection of taxes from various sources-mines, forests (vana) plantations (setu), pastures (vraja), etc. The cities, according to the Arthashastra, collected 21 kinds of taxes.