Are You A Desingu Raja?
Desingu Raja, a name embedded into the minds of people of south India through ballads. Who is he, by the way
The brave and courageous Deisingu raja is part of folklore in India. Ballad describes him as a young king who fought against a superior enemy and lost valiantly. Even now, if someone is brave and fights for injustice, people call him/her Desingu raja. Who is this Desingu raja?
Mughal Administration:
The Mughal empire was a large corporation that ran on tax money given by vassal states all over India. At the beginning of the Mughal empire under Babar, most of the time consolidating the kingdom in its North and Northwest province (Present-day Afghanistan). Akbar, the grandson of Babar and the most flamboyant Mughal ruler, entered into a strategic alliance with many Indian kings and sort of merged them into the Mughal economic system. Shah Jahan’s (grandson of Akbar) period saw rebellions in the Deccan or South India, while he grieved for his wife Mumtaz’s loss and neglected the Mughal governance. His son Aurangazeb would spend most of his youth and time as king in Deccan to put down one…
