It is said that when Nadir Shah and his forces returned home, they had stolen so much from India that all taxes were eliminated in Persia for the next three years

But less than a century and a half later, this Mughal empire was in a state of collapse after the spectacular sacking of Delhi by the Persian Nadir Shah in 1739 and the loot of all its treasures. The Mughal capital was pillaged and burned over eight long weeks; gold, silver, jewels and finery worth over 500 million rupees, were seized, along with the entire contents of the imperial treasury and the emperor's fabled Peacock throne; elephants and horses were commandeered; and 50,000 corpses littered the streets. It is said that when Nadir Shah and his forces returned home, they had stolen so much from India that all taxes were eliminated in Persia for the next three years.

S. Tharoor, Inglorious Empire, (2016) 3 

I find this starkness of this passage in Tharoor's book on 'What the British did to India' really odd. This is largely because it rather seems to undercut his arguments - the same as everyone else seems to to be clear implication here  - but also because of the bizarre opener: 150 years is ages. It's more than the gap between Henry VIII and the Glorious Revolution; the Domesday book and Magna Carta; or Napoleon and Versailles.