page_title: Campaigns of Nader Shah
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Campaigns of Nader Shah / Conquest of India / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: Nadir Shah on the Peacock Throne after his defeat of Muhammad Shah. Media &amp; Support: Opaque watercolor on paper Display Dimensions: 12 1/8 in. x 16 9/16 in. (30.8 cm x 42.1 cm) Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection Accession Number: 1990.407 Español: Nadir Shah sentado en el Trono del Pavo Real
context_page_description: The campaigns of Nader Shah, or the Naderian Wars, were a series of conflicts fought in the early to mid-eighteenth century throughout Central Eurasia primarily by the Iranian conqueror Nader Shah. His campaigns originated from the overthrow of the Iranian Safavid dynasty by the Hotaki Afghans. In the ensuing collapse and fragmentation of the empire after the capture of the Iranian capital of Isfahan by the Afghans, a claimant to the Safavid throne, Tahmasp II, accepted Nader into his service. After having subdued north-west Iran as well as neutralising the Abdali Afghans to the east as well as turning Tahmasp II into a vassal, Nader marched against the Hotaki Afghans in occupation of the rest of the country. In a series of incredible victories the Afghans were decimated and Tahmasp II returned to the throne as a restored Safavid monarch.
  In the aftermath of the Safavid restoration Nader campaigned in the western and northern reaches of the empire to regain territory lost to the Ottomans and Russians. After a bitter war lasting five years Nader had managed to restore the western frontier of Iran as well as reimposed Iranian suzerainty over most of the Caucasus.
context_section_description: The plunder seized from Delhi was so rich that Nader stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years following his return. Nader Shah's victory against the crumbling Mughal Empire in the East meant that he could afford to turn to the West and face the Ottomans. The Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I initiated the Ottoman-Iranian War (1743–1746), in which Muhammad Shah closely cooperated with the Ottomans until his death in 1748.
  Nader's Indian campaign alerted, as a far off foreign invader, also the British East India Company to the extreme weakness of the Mughal Empire and the possibility of expanding to fill the power vacuum.
caption: Nader Shah sitting upon the Peacock Throne after his victory at the Battle of Karnal.
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