The Kingdom We Imagine, The World We Inherit: Why Ramrajya, Why Not Krishna Rajya? Before I uncap my pen, I would like to credit my supervisor for the prompt that set this little train of thought in motion. Too flighty for a writer, I hesitate to use the term to describe myself, but if there is anything I have learnt along the way, it is that even an ordinary conversation can sometimes float a sentence on which muggers like me can happily thrive for days. Almost instinctively, when asked to imagine an ideal state, we reach for Ramrajya , as though it were the only natural choice, an idea so familiar that it is difficult to disentangle from our very imagination of good governance. Ironically, I grew up in a household where Krishna’s worship was far more prevalent than Rama’s, and yet the idea of Krishna Rajya never occurred to me. The nuance remained an arm’s length away, close enough to be visible, yet somehow too distant to grasp, until one fine day, when the ball was kick...