You gave a very vivid description of a politically significant episode. Thanks.
The episode starts with Jalal in disguise. It does not take him long to encounter oppression of the common people in his name. He is especially shocked at the distress caused by the Pilgrim tax and the highly inflated prices of food grains. If this was not enough he witnesses the whipping of a group of Hindu pilgrims by his own soldiers.No wonder that Jalal was an agitated state when proceedings began in the Diwan e Khaas. The pleadings of the Hindu pilgrims increased the distress. That anger had to go somewhere and he lashed out at the soldier who gave the whipping. The corrupt shopkeepers at the market got a similar sentence.That set the stage for his major announcement, the Pilgrim tax is repealed. Joy on the faces of the Hindus, shock for bigots like Maham and the ulema. Rajat as Jalal was his imperial self, the reasons he gave for abolishing the tax were sound.Each opposition was countered with a finely tuned answer till one of the maulvis tried to pass his limits, now we saw the furious regal Jalal who would brook no opposition from anyone.It was a very good episode. A regal episode. A political episode of the type we expect in this show.
thnx donjas...ya d epi did strt wid jalal in disguise and wen he lands up in d market he is all shocked to see a diff picture rise in prices and even d officials being corrupt...and dn to top it all we had d pilgrim tax hovering over his mind...dis all made him aggressive and hence his anger was took toll on d soldiers and d corrupt shopkeepers...but all got der due punishments... βοΈ RT was amazing π even d ulemas tried to interfere but had to face d wrath of jalal... βοΈ ya d epi was good and totally political based... π
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