Krishnadeva Raya

Great rulers of India #1

by Anant Pai

The king of Vijayanagara, Vira Narasimha, was very ill. He was afraid that after his death, his much loved and popular brother, Krishnadeva Raya, would seize the throne from his little son. So he asked a trusted minister to put Krishnadeva to death. The conscience-stricken minister could not perform such a heinous deed and convinced the bewildered prince to escape. Fate had already decreed that Krishnadeva Raya would one day rule the Vijayanagara empire and take it to its zenith of glory.

Genres: Comics

Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.

Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.

Reviews

[Surya · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 star for the story but many things about Krishnadeva Raya and what he did is alarming, maybe he did it because of patriotism. I wonder if society would have hailed if a woman did the same? How he maintained good friendship with the portuguese could have been elaborated since history has always painted animosity between Europeans and Indians pre-colization.

In some way, I think India falling under British rule was "karma" for the Indian kings being petty, vain and brutal. Definitely a good read, made me wonder about a lot of things.

For reasons, I failed to admire him.

[Ravi Kumar Dandapani]

nice

[Deepti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tamil Read - Vijayanagar Empire seems to have been pretty blood thirsty