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Nader Shah Quotes

1600–1747

Nāder Shāh Afshār (November 1688 or August 6, 1698 – June 19, 1747) was one of the most powerful Iranian rulers in the history of the nation, ruling as Shah of Persia (Iran) from 1736 to 1747 when he was assassinated during a rebellion. He was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty.

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Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?".

“No barbarities were left unpractised. The tax imposed was strictly exacted. What numbers destroyed themselves with their own hands.’

For some days after the massacre the streets of the doomed quarters of Dihli became impassable from the stench of the corpses filling the houses, wells and roadside, none venturing to approach them in fear.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nader Shah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.