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Peacock Throne
The Peacock Throne was a jewelled throne made for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the seventeenth century. Nader Shah carried it off from Delhi in 1739, along with the Koh-i-Noor diamond, after his invasion of India. It was destroyed after Nader's death, and it symbolises the Afsharid Empire's plunder and the impoverishment of the Mughal state.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Peacock Throne. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/peacock-throne
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