Question
Write a note on Nadir Shah.
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Answer
- With the mighty Mughal empire torn into bits and pieces during the eighteenth century, the Afghan rulers conducted a series of raids from the northwest of Delhi, looting and plundering people and temples.
- It was during one of these raids in 1739, when Nadir Shah, a powerful Persian general looted Delhi and took away the Kohinoor diamond and the fabulous Peacock Throne of Shah Jahan to Afghanistan. Nadir Shah died in 1747.
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