Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s1.t2.209

v2.c28.s1.t2.209

Invasion of Nādir Shāh.—It was during the reign of Abhai Singh that Nadir Shah² invaded India; but the summons to the Rajput princes, to put forth their strength in support of the tottering throne of Timur, was received with indifference. Not a chief of note led his myrmidons to the plains of Karnal; and Delhi was invested, plundered, and its monarch dethroned, without exciting a sigh. Such was their apathy in the cause, when the imbecility of Muhammad Shah succeeded to the inheritance of Aurangzeb, that with their own hands these puppets of despotism sapped the foundations of the empire.