Afghan Sikh Wars – Let’s head into all the Battles ( Durrani Empire) Despite the Sikh holocaust of 1746, a series of events where the failing Mughal Empire set out to murder any Sikh individual within their borders, the Sikh Confederacy essentially gained independence from the Mughal Empire in 1716 and flourished at its expense in the following decades. The Mughals were struck a serious blow when the Afsharid Persian monarch Nader Shah invaded the Mughal Empire (1738–40), but following Nader’s death in 1747, the Durrani Empire
