The author quietly remarks that is why the ruler never goes to heaven. The argument is relevant in the discussion on corruption in high places. Budh Singh portrays a medieval world in which God is the maker of a universal economy in which men, animals, kings, saints and bhagts have their wherewithal. Fate rules over society and its history. Interestingly, the fall of empires is visualised in the image of an immoral woman an arch symbol of the oppressed.
Social mobility is a hazardous endeavour.
It is conceded that the attempt to leave the world of the dead requires intelligence and enterprise. What is true of the individuals may well hold in the case of countries, as well. Despite the palpable presence of the westerners in the ruling class of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Budh Singh has no idea of external danger from the West, despite the encroaching advance from the British India. The lacuna is symbolic of the fact that the Sikh movement reached its climax on the point of its being snuffed out by the West. Rajniti Buddhi Baridh is a Sikh and non-Sikh work.