Nadir Shah led his army which consisted of 80,000 army men. Another reason that led to the invasion was to plunder the huge wealth of India that Nadir Shah came to know about. He was also compelled to invade India because Muhammad Shah had refused to return the refugees under the Mughal Empire. This was a great insult to Nadir Shah, which compelled him to invade India. Muhammad Shah completely stopped exchange of ambassadors with the royal court of Persia. One reason was that during that time, Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor of Delhi, had humiliated the Persian envoy at Delhi's royal court. There were many reasons that led Nadir Shah to conquer India. And he considered this period of weak Mughal Empire as the right opportunity to seize power and invade India. Nadir Shah, during that time, became the ruler of Persia, after being a chief of dacoits. There were frequent fights for the throne and the ministers betrayed each other, which led into the weakening of the mighty Mughal Empire. There was a void in the Mughal Empire after the death of Aurangzeb, and his successors could not fill in his place. The invasion of India by Nadir Shah-one of the most mammoth calamities that had taken place during that period-brought about a complete destruction of the already weakened Mughal Empire. It was in the year 1739, Nadir Shar, the Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, invaded India and brought about a boisterous and damaging mark on the history of Mughal India. Name of the Battle: Nadir Shah's Invasion of India.

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