Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley, who plans to make a film on Taj Mahal, Wednesday visited the monument along with his wife Daniela Lavender.
He spent more than two hours at the Taj and mingled with visitors, many of whom took pictures with the 67-year-old.
Sir Ben plans to play Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in his [...]
The structure of Taj Mahal adheres to the Indo Islamic architecture, which flourished in India during the medieval period. It is said that the structure was based primarily on the structure of Humayun’s tomb in Delhi, which was culminated in precision with the building of the Taj.
The mammoth entrance gate built in red sandstone [...]
Shahjahan had four sons and several years after the completion of the Taj Mahal, Shahjahan fell ill. The four sons entered into conflict and 3 of these sons were killed leaving only Aurangzeb who took advantage and deposed his father c. 1658. The Shah Jahan was imprisoned in the Agra Fort until his death.
The [...]
Arjumand begum was born in 1593 April in Agra to Asaf Khan,who was the Prime Minister for Shah Jahan and son of the Prime Minister for Jahangir whose sister, Nur Jahan, married Jahangir.
The story goes back in 1607, when a prince of the royal Mughal household strolled down the Meena Bazaar, accompanied by a [...]
Taj Mahal stands on the bank of River Yamuna, which otherwise serves as a wide moat defending the Great Red Fort of Agra, the centre of the Mughal empire until they moved their capital to Delhi in 1637. It was built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in the memory of [...]
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