Nadir Shah : (1688-1747), Shah of Iran (1736-47) invaded India in 1739 & advanced up to Delhi, & ordered a plunder & massacre of its citizens.
... attempted to characterise in an article in our second issue. 1 The picture in the July number is by Mahomed Hakim Khan, a student of the Government School of Art, Calcutta, and represents Nadir Shah ordering a general massacre. It is not one of those pictures salient and imposing which leap at once at the eye and hold it. A first glance only shows three figures almost conventionally Indian in... contrasted with the expression of the faces and the formidable suggestion in the pose of their sworded figures affects us like the silence of murder crouching for his leap. The central figure of Nadir Shah dominates his surroundings. It is from this centre that the suggestion of something terrible coming out of the silent group has started. The strong, proud and regal figure is extraordinarily impressive ...
... reception. SATYENDRA: Savarkar says Hindus have never been conquered by the Muslims after 1677. SRI AUROBINDO: What about Panipat? PURANI: He mentions Panipat but doesn't call it a conquest. Nadir Shah, he says, couldn't. SRI AUROBINDO: Because he didn't want to, perhaps. Savarkar has suddenly shot up into a powerful personality. And how does he call Shivaji an emperor? He is no more an emperor ...
... the political map of India at that time immediately after the Battle of Plassey. The Moghul empire had more or less disintegrated, after the Muslim forces of Persian king Nadir Shah plundered Delhi in 1739. Later in 1756, Ahmad Shah, the Emir of Afghanistan, who had previously seized the Punjab, again captured Delhi. A united force of Marathas and Sikhs could not defeat the ...
... Battle of Panipat, fought on 14 January 1761, between the Afghan invader, Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas. Ahmad Shah belonged to the Durrani clan of Afghanistan, and after the assassination of Nadir Shah in 1747 he occupied the throne of Afghanistan. He died in 1773. But during that time he invaded India eight times, occupied the Punjab, and won a tremendous victory over the Marathas in the Third ...
... in the likeness of the beast. In this sense the artist alone is the true spiritual man. An artist may depict Lord Buddha, the Incarnation of compassion, but that is no reason why the atrocious Nadir Shah's picture should be banished from the domain of art. In the pen of Kalidasa is found the spiritual description of sex-appeal. If this picture Page 72 proves tendentious to some readers ...
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