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1743

Nadir Shah's Empire Fragments

October 1743

After Nadir Shah's armies exhausted themselves on Indian plunder and Caucasian campaigns, his increasingly erratic cruelty turned his own officers against him. Assassination was coming. The vast but shallow empire he had carved from Persia to Delhi - held together by terror and a single personality - was already cracking at the seams.

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