![]() ![]() ![]() "Fifty–seven days later, he returned to Persia carrying the pick of the treasures the Mughal Empire had amassed over its 200 years of sovereignty and conquest a caravan of riches that included Jahangir's magnificent Peacock Throne, embedded in which was both the Koh-i-Noor diamond and the great Timur ruby…700 elephants, 4,000 camels and 12,000 horses carrying wagons all laden with gold, silver and precious stones, worth in total an estimated Pounds Sterling 87.5 million in the currency of the time." That wealth looted and loaded is most conveniently noted for the reader as *Around Pound Sterling 9,200 million today* in a footnote. ![]() According to Dalrymple, "Nader never wished to rule India, just to plunder it for resources to fight his real enemies, the Russians and the Ottomans " an economic conquest which he accomplished most successfully. Nader Shah, the Persian ruler invaded India. The year 1739 was both ominous and devastating for the Mughal Empire. ![]()
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