Which of the following was under Mahajanapada, Gana or Sangha type of government?

Which of the following was under Mahajanapada, Gana or Sangha type of government? Correct Answer Vajji

The correct answer is Vajji.

Key Points

• Vajji was a powerful Mahajanapada who governed under the Sangha system.
• The majority of the states were monarchs, but some, known as Ganas or Sanghas, were republics.
• The king was elected and ruled with the help of a council in these Ganasanghas, which were oligarchies.
• From republican states came the founders of Jainism and Buddhism.
• Each Mahajanapada had its own capital.
• For protection from other rulers, most of them had fortifications built around them.
• These new kings, or Rajas, maintained regular armies.
• They also took money from the people in the form of taxes. Crops were usually taxed at 1/6th of their value. This was referred to as Bhaga or sharing. 

Important Points

• Gandhara is the name of an ancient territory in Pakistan's northwestern corner and sections of Afghanistan's northeast.
• Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India that existed in the Middle Vedic period and developed into the first recorded state-level society in the Indian subcontinent, encompassing the modern-day states of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and some parts of western Uttar Pradesh.
• Magadha was an area in what is now south Bihar (before expansion) on the eastern Ganges Plain, and one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas, or 'Great Kingdoms' of the Second Urbanization (600–200 BCE).