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    Krishna played a key role in overthrowing the oppressive king Kansa in the kingdom of Surasena and helped stabilize the kingdom by reinstating the rightful king Ugrasena. However, attacks from the neighboring kingdom of Magadha weakened Surasena, forcing the Yadava clans to flee. Krishna then helped establish the new protected kingdom of Dwaraka. He also forged an alliance with the Pandavas against the Kurus and helped the Pandavas defeat their enemy Jarasandha, the king of Magadha. After the Kurukshetra war, Krishna helped the Pandava rule be reestablished in Indraprastha.

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    Krishna played a key role in overthrowing the oppressive king Kansa in the kingdom of Surasena and helped stabilize the kingdom by reinstating the rightful king Ugrasena. However, attacks from the neighboring kingdom of Magadha weakened Surasena, forcing the Yadava clans to flee. Krishna then helped establish the new protected kingdom of Dwaraka. He also forged an alliance with the Pandavas against the Kurus and helped the Pandavas defeat their enemy Jarasandha, the king of Magadha. After the Kurukshetra war, Krishna helped the Pandava rule be reestablished in Indraprastha.

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    Krishna played a key role in overthrowing the oppressive king Kansa in the kingdom of Surasena and helped stabilize the kingdom by reinstating the rightful king Ugrasena. However, attacks from the neighboring kingdom of Magadha weakened Surasena, forcing the Yadava clans to flee. Krishna then helped establish the new protected kingdom of Dwaraka. He also forged an alliance with the Pandavas against the Kurus and helped the Pandavas defeat their enemy Jarasandha, the king of Magadha. After the Kurukshetra war, Krishna helped the Pandava rule be reestablished in Indraprastha.

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    Krishna as a political reformer

    India during the period of Mahabharata.


    Krishna was the key political figure in overthrowing Kansa, the king of Surasena
    Kingdom. The kingdom of Shurasena was the native kingdom of Yadava clans
    constituted by the Andhakas, Vrishnis, and Bhojas. By overthrowing Kansa, Krishna
    re-established the old king Ugrasena on the throne and stabilized the kingdom from
    collapse due to factional fighting within the kingdom.

    The next threat came from outside the country, from the Magadha Kingdom. The ruler
    of Magadha, Jarasandha, attacked Surasena many times and weakened its military.
    Krishna and other Yadava chiefs all tried their best to hold on. At last, they had
    to flee from their native kingdom to the south and to the west.

    Later, with the initiative of Krishna, the Yadavas who fled from Surasena formed a
    new kingdom called Dwaraka. Its capital was Dwaravati, a city well protected by
    mountains on all sides, on an island, not far from the Gujarat coast. This made it
    immune to attacks from land. The kingdom prospered by sea trade with seafaring
    kingdoms.

    Krishna also established an alliance of Yadavas with the Pandavas, a faction of


    Kurus, who were fighting against the established Kuru Kingdom. This alliance also
    benefited the Yadavas, strategically. With the help of the Pandavas, they overthrew
    the Magadha king Jarasandha who was their biggest enemy. For this assistance,
    Krishna in turn helped the Pandavas to win the Kurukshetra War against the Kurus
    headed by Duryodhana. Thus the rule of the Pandava Yudhishthira was re-established
    by Krishna at Indraprastha, the modern-day Delhi.

    However, The Yadava chiefs fought the Kurukshetra War, on both sides, and even
    after the war ended, the enmity among the Yadava leaders continued. After 36 years,
    since the Kurukshetra War, another war broke among the Yadavas, in their own
    kingdom. This resulted in the absolute destruction of the Yadava kingdom in
    Dwaraka, with Balarama and Krishna also departing due to grief. This fight among
    Yadava is also attributed to a curse from Gandhari, mother of Duryodhana to
    Krishna.

    But the help Krishna extended to the Pandava Yudhishthira, paid off. When the rule
    of Yudhishthira ended, he established the Yadava prince Vajra on the throne of
    Indraprastha along with the Kuru prince Parikshit, at Hastinapura. Thus the royal
    lineage of the Yadavas continued through Aniruddha's son, Prince Vajra, great-
    grandson of Krishna and grandson of Pradyumna. Parikshit was the son of Abhimanyu
    and the grandson of Arjuna. Late Sri. Kulapati K.M.Munshi's famous narration of the
    life of Lord Krishna, Krishnavatara (Volumes 1 to 8) published by Bharatiya Vidya
    Bhavan is a very good read into the political aspects of Lord Krishna, painting
    Krishna not as the God Almighty but as a human Hero and a Great Leader. A very
    interesting read between the lines into the inner aspects of politics by Krishna as
    a human being.

    The following sections show glimpses of Krishna's political life, as a supporter of


    the Pandava cause, and as a mediator among his own kinsmen.

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