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Nader Shah reunited the Persian realm and removed the invaders. He became so powerful that he decided to depose the last members of the Safavid dynasty, which had ruled Persia for over 200 years ...

Nader Shah’s reign is a catalogue of the ‘ifs and buts of history’. In 2000, Sanjay Subrahmanyam noted that Nader was in a position to conquer India in 1739 and establish an Indo-Persian empire ...

Nadir Shah, the Persian emperor, invaded India with a small army and left with immense wealth, dealing a crushing blow to the once-mighty Mughal Empire. The weakening Mughal Empire before the battle ...

As a result, the Persian ruler had made inroads into northern India by early 1739. On February 24, 1739, Shah defeated the Mughal army at the Battle of Karnal and took into custody Nizam-ul-Mulk ...

Nader Shah (August 1688– 19 June 1747) is considered a national hero as he reformed Iran’s military forces and utterly defeated Afghans in a series of brilliant victories, after which he restored ...

The Peacock Throne of the Mughal Empire, commissioned by Emperor Shah Jahan, ... In 1739, it was captured as a war trophy by Nader Shah, the Persian invader, after his invasion of India.

Nadir Shah’s attack exposed how fragile the Mughal Empire had become. The invasion hastened its decline, leaving it vulnerable to further exploitation, both from within and from external forces.