"Nadir Shah is said to have written to the emperor ‘My coming to Cabul and possessing myself thereof was purely out of zeal for Islam and friendship for you...my stay on this side of the Attock is with a view that when those infidels (the Marathas) move towards Hindustan, I may send an army of the victorious Kizzilbash to drive them to the abyss of hell’."
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Parties and politics at the Mughal Court, 1707-1740 by Chandra, Satish, 1922-2017 quoted in Jain, M. (2024). Vishwanath rises and rises : the story of eternal Kashi.
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