Which of the following regions, ruled by the Maukharies, gradually replaced Pataliputra as a political centre of North India?
Kannauj
The Maukharis were a ruling dynasty that rose to prominence in northern India during the post-Gupta period (roughly 6th–7th centuries CE).
Their capital was Kannauj (in present-day Uttar Pradesh). As the Maukhari power expanded, Kannauj steadily eclipsed Pataliputra (modern Patna) as the dominant political and commercial centre of North India.
Thanesar was the capital of the Pushyabhuti (Vardhana) dynasty — contemporaries of the Maukharis — and is a different city in present-day Haryana.
Patna is the modern name of Pataliputra itself, which the Maukharis displaced, not replaced it with.
Hence, Kannauj is the region that, under Maukhari rule, gradually replaced Pataliputra as the political centre of North India.
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