In 1741, while Nader was passing through the forest of Mazanderan on his way to fight the Daghestanis, an assassin took a shot at him but Nader was only lightly wounded. Nader grew up during the final years of the Safavid dynasty which had ruled Iran since 1502. sfn error: no target: CITEREFAxworthy2006 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFMuratovAllen2011 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFAllenMuratov (, Elton L. Daniel, "The History of Iran" (Greenwood Press 2000) p. 94, Raghunath Rai. Nader also secured one of the Mughal emperor's daughters, Jahan Afruz Banu Begum, as a bride for his youngest son. Jassa Singh Ramgarhia was a prominent Sikh Misl leader in the 17th century. While this was going on, Nader left Kabul due to lack of supplies and started for Gandamak on August 25. On 6 November, the march through India was resumed. Sikh Attacks. As he moved into the Mughal territories, he was loyally accompanied by his Georgian subject and future king of eastern Georgia, Erekle II He has such an unusually loud voice that he can give orders to his people at a distance of about 100 yards. Sardar Baghel Singh (1730-1802), A prominent Sikh General who was instrumental in establishing Sikh Empire along the Yamuna and humiliating Mughal King Shah Alam in their own home at Delhi. SIKH NEWS Sponsor by DESHBANDHU KAUR ... Once Mughal administration was weakened, foreigners like Nadir Shah invaded 5 years after Martyrdom of Banda Singh Bahadur and then when Kapur Singh had further weakened Mughals, Abdali invaded Punjab (and subsequently fought Marathas at Delhi who had replaced Mughals). The defenses in Afghanistan, especially, were weak after tribal uprisings by the Pashtuns on the Northern Frontier. [14], Persian Invasion of Mughal Empire (1738-1740), It has been suggested that portions of this article be, Capture of Peshawar and Battle of Khyber Pass, Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, http://warfare.atspace.eu/Persia/Nader%20Shah%20Invades%20India.htm, "Nadir Shah in India : Sarkar, Jadunath : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming", "AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF PERSIA DURING THE LAST TWO CENTURIES (A.D. 1722–1922)". Muhammad Shah handed over the keys to the royal treasury, and lost the Peacock Throne, to Nader Shah, which thereafter served as a symbol of Persian imperial might. He had the chief mullah of Iran strangled after he was heard expressing support for the Safavids. In late 1726, Nader recaptured Mashhad. With lumber from Mazandaran, he built ships in Bushehr. The Moghan plain was specifically chosen for its size and "abundance of fodder". This concept resembled, in broad terms, the origin myths of 15th century Anatolian Turkmen dynasties. He decided to take full revenge on the Sikhs for all his misfortunes. It is estimated that Nader took away with him treasures worth as much as seven hundred million rupees. Bring me my weapons!’ The assassins were struck with fear by these words and wanted to escape, but ran straight into the two chiefs of the murder-conspiracy, who allayed their fears and made them go into the tent again. A detachment was sent under Nader's son, Nasrullah, to attack the Afghans of Ghorband and Bamian. He entered the city on 20 March 1739 and occupied Shah Jehan’s imperial suite in the Red Fort. local comedians in sikh dress) - Duration: ... Lost Treasure Of Nadir Shah That Was Lost Near Hindu Kush - Duration: 10:56. [66] It was published in 1770 as Histoire de Nadir Chah. He then, to the accompaniment of the rolling of drums and the blaring of trumpets, unsheathed his great battle sword in a grand flourish to the great and loud acclaim and wild cheers of the Afsharid troops present. The commission was supervised by Mīrzā Moḥammad Mahdī Khan Monšī, the court historiographer and author of the Tarikh-e-Jahangoshay-e-Naderi (History of Nader Shah's Wars). (1) In first invasion on India in 1748 he was defeated at Manupur. They entered the enclosure of the royal tent, pushing and smashing their way through any obstacles, and penetrated into the sleeping quarters of that ill-starred monarch. [27], Tahmasp and the Qajar leader Fath Ali Khan (the ancestor of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar) contacted Nader and asked him to join their cause and drive the Ghilzai Afghans out of Khorasan. [48] Following the prior defeat of Mughal forces, he then advanced deeper into India, crossing the river Indus before the end of year. The new shah of the Ghilzai Afghans, Ashraf, decided to move against Nader but in September 1729, Nader defeated him at the Battle of Damghan and again decisively in November at Murchakhort. [75] Joseph Stalin used to read about Nader Shah and admired him, calling him, along with Ivan the Terrible, a teacher. On the Battle of Karnal on 24 February 1739, Nader led his army to victory over the Mughals. When a rumour spread that Nader had been assassinated by a female guard at the Red Fort, some Indians attacked and killed 3,000 Afsharid troops during the riots that broke out on the night of 21 March. This was the signal to start the onslaught and carnage. His successful campaign and replenishment of funds meant that he could continue his wars against Iran's archrival and neighbour, the Ottoman Empire,[54] as well as the campaigns in the North Caucasus. Legend has it that in 1704, when he was about 17, a band of marauding Uzbeks invaded the province of Khorasan, where Nader lived with his mother. He ended up losing all of Nader's recent gains to the Ottomans, and signed a treaty ceding Georgia and Armenia in exchange for Tabriz. Three days after the battle, Nader occupied Peshawar without resistance. [18] His reforms may have strengthened the country, but they did little to improve Iran's suffering economy. [1], Nader Shah's victory against the weak and crumbling Mughal Empire in the far east meant that he could afford to turn back and resume war against Persia's archrival, the neighbouring Ottoman Empire, but also the further campaigns in the North Caucasus and Central Asia. An enormous fine of 20 million rupees was levied on the people of Delhi. In 1738, Nader Shah conquered Kandahar, the last outpost of the Hotaki dynasty in Afghanistan, he then began to launch raids across the Hindu Kush mountains into Northern India, which, at that time, was under the rule of the Mughal Empire. [37] The small group of close intimates, Nader's friends, included Tahmasp Khan Jalayer and Hasan-Ali Beg Bestami. [74] The Kashmirian historian Lateef described him as follows: “Nader Shah, the horror of Asia, the pride and savior of his country, the restorer of her freedom and conqueror of India, who, having a simple origin, rose to such greatness that monarchs rarely have from birth”. [8] Nader, furious at the killings, retaliated by ordering his soldiers to carry out the notorious qatl-e-aam (qatl = killing, aam = common public, in open) of Delhi. Nader was crowned Shah of Iran on March 8, 1736, a date his astrologers had chosen as being especially propitious,[40] in attendance of an "exceptionally large assembly" composed of the military, religious and nobility of the nation, as well as the Ottoman ambassador Ali Pasha. Sikh attacks. There is a story that says, having demanded the daughter of his defeated enemy Muhammad Shah, the Emperor of Delhi, to marry his son Nasrullah, he received the answer that a royal lineage up to the 7th generation was required for marriage with a princess from the House of Timur. Having heard rumours that his father had died, he had made preparations for assuming the crown. Sikh History What was Nadir Shah’s prophecy about Sikhs? [31], Relations between Nader and the Shah had declined as the latter grew jealous of his general's military successes. During the struggle between Adil Shah, his brother Ibrahim Khan and Nader's grandson Shah Rukh and almost all provincial governors declared independence, established their own states, and the entire Empire of Nader Shah fell into anarchy. Nadr Qolī Beg had an obscure beginning in the Turkish Afshar tribe, which was loyal to the Ṣafavid shahs of Iran. During the course of one day (March 22) 20,000 to 30,000 Indians were killed by the Iranian troops and as many as 10,000 women and children were taken as slaves, forcing Mohammad Shah to beg Nader for mercy.[51][50]. His penchant to raid, loot and plunder was irresistible. What is a son? After the Iranians had forced the Uzbek khanate of Bukhara to submit, Nader wanted Reza to marry the khan's elder daughter because she was a descendant of his hero Genghis Khan, but Reza flatly refused and Nader married the girl himself.[55]. Nevertheless, the repulsive greed and unprecedented cruelties that wore his subjects, ultimately led to his fall, and the extremes and horrors that were caused by him, made Persia cry. Durrani invaded India nine times between 1747 to 1769.In the 1760s he made four attempts to crush the Sikhs, but his own kingdom was restive with serious revolts, and he eventually lost control of the Punjab to them. For the 20th-century king of Afghanistan, see, A contemporary court portrait of Nader Shah by Mohammad Reza Hendi (c. 1740), now held in London's, First Ottoman campaign and the regain of the Caucasus, North Caucasus, Central Asia, Arabia, and the second Ottoman war, Nader's exact date of birth is unknown but August 6 is the "likeliest" according to Axworthy, p. 17 (and note) and, Tucker, Ernest, "Nadir Shah and the Ja'fari Mazhab reconsidered", in. The regions to the west of that, mainly Iranian territories in Georgia, Iranian Azerbaijan, and Armenia, were taken by the Ottomans. In Isfahan, Nader got Tahmasp drunk then showed him to the courtiers asking if a man in such a state was fit to rule. Without Nader, "eventual British [in India] would have come later and in a different form, perhaps never at all - with important global effects".[68]. [3], The Mughal empire had been weakened by ruinous wars of succession in the three decades following the death of Aurangzeb. Nader and his mother were among those who were carried off into slavery. His numerous campaigns created a great empire that, at its greatest extent, briefly encompassed what is now part of or includes Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the North Caucasus, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Pakistan, Oman and the Persian Gulf, but his military spending had a ruinous effect on the Iranian economy. [30], In the spring of 1730, Nader attacked Iran's archrival the Ottomans and regained most of the territory lost during the recent chaos. Erekle II assumed control over Kartli after Teimuraz II's death, thus unifying the two as the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, becoming the first Georgian ruler in three centuries to preside over a politically unified eastern Georgia,[63] and due to the frantic turn of events in mainland Iran he would be able to maintain its autonomy until the advent of the Iranian Qajar dynasty. He agreed and thus became a figure of national importance. Gateway to Sikhism. English traveler Jonas Hanway, who lived in the courtyard of Nader Shah, describes him: “Nader Shah is taller than 6 feet, well-built, very physically strong. He may have perceived a need to unite disparate components of the ummah against the expanding power of Europe at that time, however his view of Muslim unity was different from later concepts of it. Nadir Shah would barely have left Panjab when ZK started his pogrom of rewards for killings Sikhs. [11], The plunder seized from Delhi was so rich that Nader stopped taxation in Persia for a period of three years following his return. He received word that the Mughal Emperor would not receive Nader's letter to him, nor would he let his ambassador leave. Sikhs made a plan to free all the slaves. Nader Shah was assassinated on 20 June 1747,[7] at Quchan in Khorasan. During the first Afghan invasion, however, Abdali's forces were defeated by the Mughals. Despite having a huge army at his disposal, in this campaign Nader showed little of his former military brilliance. Nader had the greatest contempt for the weak, depraved Mahmud Shah, who, according to the local chronicler of that era, “was always with his mistress in his arms and a glass in his hand,” and was the lowest libertine and simply a puppet ruler. This chapter studies the Afghan invasion, which was led by Ahmed Shah Abdali. Nader used the pretext of his Afghan enemies taking refuge in India to cross the border and invade the militarily weak but still extremely wealthy far eastern empire,[47] and in a brilliant campaign against the governor of Peshawar he took a small contingent of his forces on a daunting flank march through nearly impassable mountain passes and took the enemy forces positioned at the mouth of the Khyber Pass completely by surprise, utterly beating them despite being outnumbered two-to-one. In 1743, he conquered Oman and its main capital Muscat. Nader Shah had not yet had time to get dressed; Muhammad Quli Khan ran in first and struck him with a great blow of his sword which felled him to the ground; two or three others followed suit; the wretched monarch, covered in his own blood, attempted – but was too weak – to get up, and cried out, ‘Why do you want to kill me? By Harjot Kaur February 25, 2015 No Comments. In response, Nader Shah agreed to withdraw, but Mohammad Shah paid the consequence in handing over the keys of his royal treasury, and losing even the fabled Peacock Throne to the Iranian emperor. When Sultan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in Kandahar, the governor he sent (Gurgin Khan) was killed. Nadir Shah`s progress towards Delhi and general massacre in Delhi, and his return to Iran are described in detail. Throughout his career, he was only interested in his own advancement. Reply to this topic; Start new topic; Prev; 1; 2; Next; Page 2 of 2 . Napoleon considered himself new Nader, and he himself was later called European Nader Shah. His thoughts now turned to the Mughal Empire of India. Lockhart, L., "Nadir Shah: A Critical Study Based Mainly upon Contemporary Sources", London: Luzac & Co., 1938, 21 : Stephen Erdely and Valentin A. Riasanovski. The Iranian troops left Delhi at the beginning of May 1739, but before they left, he ceded back to Muhammad Shah all territories to the east of the Indus which he had overrun. [22] His father, Emam Qoli, was a herdsman who may also have been a coatmaker. [10] Exact casualty figures are uncertain, as after the massacre, the bodies of the victims were simply buried in mass burial pits or cremated in grand funeral pyres without any proper record being made of the numbers cremated or buried. [4], Nader had asked Muhammad Shah to close the Mughal frontiers around Kabul so that the Afghan rebels he was fighting against could not seek refuge in Kabul. At the same time, the Abdali Afghans rebelled and besieged Mashhad, forcing Nader to suspend his campaign and save his brother, Ebrahim. After what that man described miracles and pleasures of the heaven, the shah asked: “Are there such things as war and victory over the enemy in paradise?” When the man answered negatively, Nader replied: “How can there be any pleasure then?”.[70]. "History". Nader Shah Afshar (Persian: نادر شاه افشار‎; also known as Nader Qoli Beyg نادر قلی بیگ or Tahmāsp Qoli Khan تهماسپ قلی خان) (August 1688[5] – 19 June 1747) was one of the most powerful Iranian rulers in Iranian history, ruling as Shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747 when he was assassinated during a rebellion. Being on a march or in the field, he confines himself to food, drink and sleep of a simple soldier and forces all his officers to follow the same harsh discipline. Nader sent his son, Reza to Iran (3 November). Meanwhile, all the Khalsa bands got together and passed a resolution that Nadir shah had plundered the city of Delhi and now he is taking hindu women as slaves to his country. Nader and his Afsharid troops left Delhi in the beginning of May 1739, but before they left, he ceded back all territories to the east of the Indus, which he had overrun, to Muhammad Shah. While Nader was absent in the east, Tahmasp tried to assert himself by launching a foolhardy campaign to recapture Yerevan. In 1757, when Ahmad Shah Durrani invaded India for loot and plunder a fourth time he was so harassed by Sikh fighters who several times slew his guards and pillaged his baggage train that he became determined to take his revenge on them. The Persians laid violent hands on everything and everybody. It was after this invasion when the misls were formed, which were components of the Dal Khalsa. [57], Nader changed the Iranian coinage system. Ahmed Shah Durrani became king of Afghanistan after the death of Nadir Shah. p. 19 FK Publications. Until the advent of the Zands and Qajars, its rulers had various forms of autonomy, but stayed vassals and subjects to the Iranian king. [18], Nader's focus on common Turkmen descent was designed to establish a broad political framework that could tie him, more closely than his Safavid predecessors, to both Ottomans and Mughals. However, the country was extremely rich and Delhi’s prosperity and prestige was still at a high. The next day, the Shah held a great durbar in the capital. Nadir Shah’s Invasion (1738-1739) Babar was the first of the Mughals to invade India in 1521, and seize power at Delhi by defeating the army of the Lodhi Sultan Ibrahim at Panipat in 1526. towards December 1719, Mohammed Shah Rangila was placed on the throne inspite of the protestations of his widowed mother. This was a hat with four peaks which symbolised the first four caliphs. [21], Nader Shah was born in the fortress of Dastgerd[6] into the Qereqlu clan of the Afshars, a semi-nomadic Turkic Qizilbash pastoralist tribe settled in the northern valleys of Khorasan, a province in the northeast of the Iranian Empire. This once powerful Muslim state to the east was falling apart as the nobles became increasingly disobedient and local opponents such as the Sikhs and Hindu Marathas of the Maratha Empire were expanding upon its territory. "[54] Soon afterwards, Nader started executing the nobles who had witnessed his son's blinding. Starting from a young age, Napoleon Bonaparte also used to read about and admire Nader Shah. Meanwhile, all the Khalsa bands got together and passed a resolution that Nadir shah had plundered the city of Delhi and now he is taking Hindu women as slaves to his country. On hearing the news, Reza's wife, who was Tahmasp's sister, committed suicide. Amit Shah said if farmer organisations felt that any provision of the three new farm laws was against their interests, the Modi government was ready to discuss and consider it with an open mind. As a result of the invasions of Nadir Shah Abdali and the suicidal internal feuds of the Mughal nobility, the Mughal Empire had (by 1761) ceased to exist in practice as an all-India Empire. The most detailed account of Nader's assassination comes from Père Louis Bazin, Nader's physician at the time of his death, who relied on the eyewitness testimony of Chuki, one of Nader's favourite concubines: Around fifteen of the conspirators were impatient or merely eager to distinguish themselves, and so turned up prematurely at the agreed meeting place. Nader subsequently took on the title Tahmasp Qoli (Servant of Tahmasp). ‘Where is my sword? [39] Everyone agreed to the proposal of Nader becoming the new king, many—if not most—enthusiastically, the rest fearing Nader's anger if they showed support for the deposed Safavids. Nader was not impressed with his son's waywardness and reprimanded him, but he took him on his expedition to conquer territory in Transoxiana. With his flank secure, Nader was free to march on Kabul. [37] The summonses for the people to attend had gone out in November 1735, and they began arriving in January 1736. Jassa Singh Ahluwalia. [58][59] In addition, he increased the number of soldiers under his command and reduced the number of soldiers under tribal and provincial control. Nader's increasing ill health made his temper ever worse. Finished translations were presented to Nāder Shah in Qazvīn in June, 1741, who, however, was not impressed. The city administrator attempted to fix prices at a lower level and Afsharid troops were sent to the market at Paharganj, Delhi to enforce them. Perhaps it was his illness that made Nader lose the initiative in his war against the Lezgin tribes of Daghestan. He had declared that he was Nadir Shah's successor, thus giving him the right to conquer India. Nader's early experiences did not, however, make him particularly compassionate toward the poor. It has been estimated that during the course of six hours in one day, 22 March 1739, approximately 20,000 to 30,000 Indian men, women and children were slaughtered by the Afsharid troops during the massacre in the city. [50] Nader, furious, reacted by ordering his soldiers to sack the city. The Mughal ruler, Muhammad Shah, proved unable to stop the disintegration of the empire. "Here and there some opposition was offered, but in most places people were butchered unresistingly. The Afsharids reached Jalalabad and sacked the city on September 7th in revenge for the murder of Nader's courier. As he moved into the Mughal territories, he was loyally accompanied by his Georgian subject and future king of eastern Georgia, Erekle II, who led a Georgian contingent as a military commander as part of Nader's force. He had no source of income other than the sticks he gathered for firewood, which he transported to the market. His neighbors respected him, his enemies were afraid of him, and he lacked only the love of his subjects ”. There is, however, no reference to the Sikhs who according to some other sources are said to have attacked the invader`s baggage train. He revived the concept of the Khalsa which did not hold any land and only fought for justice. [69] Nader Shah once had a conversation with a holy man about paradise. He minted silver coins, called Naderi, that were equal to the Mughal rupee. [18] Nader discontinued the policy of paying soldiers based on land tenure. It ended in 1746 with the signing of a peace treaty, the Treaty of Kerden, in which the Ottomans agreed to let Nader occupy Najaf. The citizens' rejoicing was cut short when Nader plundered them to pay his army. [18] He recaptured the island of Bahrain from the Arabs. The Indian campaign was the zenith of Nader's career. [24], Nader grew up during the final years of the Safavid dynasty which had ruled Iran since 1502. It took Nader fourteen months to crush this uprising. They built a bridge over the Indus river by Attock and crossed the Chenab near Wazirabad on January 8, 1739. This section: Axworthy, pp. Just better. [1][12]The governor of Sindh didn't comply with Nader Shah's demands. [23] His family lived a nomadic way of life. In March 1735, he signed a treaty with the Russians in Ganja by which the latter agreed to withdraw all of their troops from Iranian territory,[35][36] those which had not been ceded back by the 1732 Treaty of Resht yet, resulting in the reestablishment of Iranian rule over all of the Caucasus and northern mainland Iran again. Many years later, when he was returning in triumph from his conquest of Delhi, he led the army to his birthplace and made a speech to his generals about his early life of deprivation. [65] In the far east, Ahmad Shah Durrani had already proclaimed independence, marking the foundation of modern Afghanistan. [50] The plunder seized from India was so much that Nader stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years following his return. By chatanga1, April 7, 2019 in Literature | Library. The news of the Iranian army's swift and decisive successes against the northern vassal states of the Mughal empire caused much consternation in Delhi, prompting the Mughal ruler, Muhammad Shah, to raise an army of some 300,000 men and march to confront Nader Shah. The decaying Mughal empire and its governors tried desperately to prolong their rule but lost it all due to the onslaught of the Persians, Afghans, Marathas and the Sikhs. Nader was a long-waited son in his family. [26] In 1722, Russia, led by Peter the Great and further aided by some of the most notable Caucasian regents of the disintegrating Safavid Empire, such as Vakhtang VI, launched the Russo-Iranian War (1722-1723) in which Russia captured swaths of Iran's territories in the North Caucasus, South Caucasus, as well as in northern mainland Iran. Nadir Shah was probably the last great Asian military conqueror. The end of his reign marked the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia . In 1738, Nader Shah conquered Kandahar, the last outpost of the Hotaki dynasty in Afghanistan, he then began to launch raids across the Hindu Kush mountains into Northern India, which, at that time, was under the rule of the Mughal Empire. [18], Nader became increasingly cruel as a result of his illness and his desire to extort more and more tax money to pay for his military campaigns. [18] Nader's other primary aim in his religious reforms was to weaken the Safavids further since Shi'a Islam had always been a major element in support for the dynasty. This included mainly, but was not limited to, the losses of Dagestan (including its principal city of Derbent), Baku, Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad. [6]. Sultan Husayn's son had declared himself Shah Tahmasp II, but found little support and fled to the Qajar tribe, who offered to back him. Nadir Shah’s forces were no match for bands of 25-50 Sikhs who would gallop on their horses attack, save some slaves and then retreat. Thus, the Sikhs relieved him of most of his looted wealth and managed to free the Indian youth, including women, who had been enslaved. [18][40], In 1741, eight Muslim mullahs and three European and five Armenian priests translated the Koran and the Gospels[clarification needed]. They killed many peasants. Nader settled down in Kabul to handle the province's affairs. When rebellions broke out in 1743 upon the death of Muhammad Hakim, the shah dispatched the ataliq’s son Muhammad Rahim Bi, who had accompanied him to Iran, to quell them. New revolts broke out and Nader crushed them ruthlessly, building towers from his victims' skulls in imitation of his hero Timur. (Nader Shah) Until His Assassination In A.D. 1747. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nader_Shah%27s_invasion_of_India&oldid=995608751, Articles with dead external links from February 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The Persian Empire annexes all lands west of the Indus river and establishes hegemony over the region, "Empire" as a description of foreign policy, This page was last edited on 21 December 2020, at 23:48. However, the local merchants refused to accept the lower prices and this resulted in violence during which some Afsharid troops were assaulted and killed. Finally, Karim Khan founded the Zand dynasty and became ruler of Iran by 1760. [56] Though Nader managed to take most of Dagestan during his campaign, the effective guerrilla warfare as deployed by the Lezgins, but also the Avars and Laks made the Iranian re-conquest of the particular North Caucasian region a short lived one; several years later, Nader was forced to withdraw. [41], The Safavids had introduced Shi'a Islam as the state religion of Iran. Ahmad Shah was one of the famous Afghan generals of the Persian Afsarid Emperor Nadir Shah. Among his reforms was the introduction of what came to be known as the kolah-e Naderi. The battle of Amritsar was fought between the Nihang Sikhs of the Shaheedan Misl and the Afghans. This form of Sikh attack was called Dhai Put. Nader reunited the Iranian realm and removed the invaders. [20] The turning point in his military career started from his second and third campaigns against the by then revolting Lezgians, as well as other ethnic groups of Dagestan in the northwestern parts of his domain. “Tell him,” Nader replied, “that Nasrullah is the son of Nader Shah, the son and grandson of the sword, and so on, not until the 7th, but until the 70th generation.”. Nader Shah, attracted by the country's wealth, sought plunder like so many other foreign invaders before him. Nader suggested to his closest intimates, after a great hunting party on the Moghan plains (presently split between Azerbaijan and Iran), that he should be proclaimed the new king (shah) in place of the young Abbas III. [2], Nader Shah became the Persian ruler in 1730. On June 10, Nader reached the city and the garrison sallied out to try and attack the Persians, who then just retreated to a safe distance where they could besiege the city. Then he obtained a promise of a tribute of 2 million Rupees annually from Lahore, and confirmed the appointment of Zakaria Khan at Lahore and of his son Shah Nawaz Khan at Multan (where Abdus Samad Khan had just died). Nader pursued and defeated Ashraf, who was murdered by his own followers. When Sultan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in Kandahar, the governor he sent (Gurgin Khan) was killed. The Marathas had captured vast swathes of territory in Central and Northern India, whilst many of the Mughal nobles had asserted their independence and founded small states. Nadir Shah's forces were no match for bands of 25-50 Sikhs who would gallop on their horses attack, save some slaves and then retreat. The envoy sent to deliver the letter was turned back at Jalalabad, and then murdered by a neighboring chieftain. The newly gained Russian and Turkish possessions were confirmed and further divided amongst themselves in the Treaty of Constantinople (1724). He began to suspect his son was behind the attempt and confined him to Tehran. He then besieged Baghdad, as well as Ganja in the northern provinces, earning a Russian alliance against the Ottomans. On the morning of 22 March, the Shah rode out in full armour and took a seat at the Sunehri Masjid of Roshan-ud-dowla near the Kotwali Chabutra in the middle of Chandni Chowk. Nasir Khan, the Mughal governor of Afghanistan, was in Peshawar when he heard of Nader Shah's invasion. The Sikhs decisively won. [6] When the governor of Ghazni fled upon hearing of Nader's approach, the Qadi, Scholars, and rich men of Ghazni gave the invaders presents and submitted to Nader when he entered on May 31. Of succession in the northern provinces, earning a Russian alliance against the Ottomans and.... Letter was turned back at Jalalabad, and the citadel capitulated the garrison to... ' a practices which were components of the Hotaki dynasty single defeat, therefore was! 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