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Bengal WarIn the early eighteenth century, the province of Bengal was known as the Paradise of Nations, a wealthy and prosperous region that accounted for forty…
Nader Shah's invasion of IndiaNader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was a man whose ambition knew no bounds and whose military genius would soon shatter the Mughal Empire.
Carnatic warsIn 1740, a war erupted in Europe over the succession of the Austrian throne, yet its first shots in India were fired not by European soldiers but by Indian…
Sack of Delhi (1757)The Yamuna River flowed red with blood for two weeks following the events of early 1757, a visceral testament to the scale of slaughter that defined the Sack…
Foreign relations of the Mughal EmpireIn 1512, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I sent two Turkish engineers, Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi, to the court of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire…
Deccan warsThe year 1689 marked the brutal end of the Maratha golden era when Sambhaji, the thirty-one-year-old son of Shivaji, was captured and executed by Mughal…