4 ideas
In Yaksha Town, the King rules gold-mining serfs from behind a net and never shows himself. Nandini comes waiting for her lover Ranjan, and her vitality draws the King out. The King's own machinery then brings Ranjan to him, and the King kills him without knowing who he is. When he learns he has been deceived by the system that acts in his name, the King tears down his net and joins Nandini in rising against his own rule.
The miners are addressed by numbers such as '47' and '69' instead of names. This makes each person interchangeable, so losing one is an accounting event rather than a death. The mechanism works by stripping away the relationships and histories a name carries. Once those are gone, extraction can go on without anyone registering moral cost.
The King's hoarding of gold and control isolates him behind the same net that confines his subjects. He can take and break things, but he cannot touch or receive anything living. His functionaries act in his name without his knowledge, so the system becomes autonomous and ends up deceiving the ruler it claims to serve.
Read the play's supporting cast by function. The Governor enforces order and the Gosain (priest) preaches contentment so workers stay docile. The Professor turns living reality into dissected, abstract knowledge. Seen this way, religion, scholarship and administration are not neutral: each supplies a different form of consent or blindness that keeps the mine running.