Rajdharma

Published on 26th April, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror People often speak of a civilisational rupture that took place when Islam came into India. The easiest way to understand this is to go back in history and figure out the different ways in which kingship was perceived, in medieval India and medieval Persia, before 1,000 AD. In other words, what constituted ‘Hindu rajdharma’, and how different was it from what was called Turuku rajdharma by Indian kings? A thousand years ago, Indian kings followed, what was called, the Rajmandala concept. At the centre of the Rajmandala were the king and his kingdom, and his patron deity ..