• Thumbnail for Mumtaz Mahal (Red Fort)
    243445 The Mumtaz Mahal (Hindustani: ممتاز محل, मुमताज़ महल, literally Jewel Palace) is located in the Red Fort, Delhi. The Mumtaz Mahal is one of the...
    2 KB (222 words) - 02:53, 21 October 2023
  • Mumtaz Mahal (1593–1631) was the wife of Shah Jahan, an emperor of the Mughal Empire. Mumtaz Mahal may also refer to: Mumtaz Mahal (Red Fort), in Dehli...
    467 bytes (92 words) - 13:32, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Red Fort
    restored. The Red Fort Archaeological Museum was moved from the drum house to the Mumtaz Mahal. The INA trials, also known as the Red Fort Trials, refer...
    60 KB (5,740 words) - 08:43, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taj Mahal
    on 6 February 1643, of the 12th anniversary of the death of Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in...
    73 KB (7,890 words) - 11:31, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agra Fort
    took on its current state. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in the memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Unlike his grandfather, Shah Jahan tended to have buildings...
    21 KB (2,717 words) - 14:12, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal
    commissioned the project upon the death of one of his favorite wives Mumtaz Mahal. A masterpiece of the Mughal chief architect Ahmad ma'mar, it is one...
    79 KB (9,976 words) - 05:27, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Red Fort Archaeological Museum
    243445°E / 28.654494; 77.243445 The Red Fort Archaeological Museum is currently located in the Mumtaz Mahal of the Red Fort in Delhi, northern India. The museum...
    3 KB (315 words) - 08:32, 15 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Shah Jahan
    Shah Jahan (category Taj Mahal)
    next to Mumtaz Mahal. Among his other constructions are the Red Fort also called the Delhi Fort or Lal Qila in Urdu, large sections of Agra Fort, the Jama...
    69 KB (7,572 words) - 06:39, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lahore Fort
    Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631-32 by Mirza Ghiyas Begh, the grandfather of Mumtaz Mahal, and father of Nur Jahan. The ornate white marble pavilion's walls are...
    48 KB (5,486 words) - 05:18, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jahanara Begum
    the eldest surviving child of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. After Mumtaz Mahal's untimely death in 1631, the 17-year-old Jahanara was entrusted...
    38 KB (4,513 words) - 09:55, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naubat Khana (Red Fort)
    court at the Red Fort in Delhi. The British initially installed the museum of the fort in this gate. It was later moved to the Mumtaz Mahal. The Indian...
    4 KB (463 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Agra
    Agra (section Taj Mahal)
    Agra Fort, Sikandra and Agra's most prized monument, the Taj Mahal, constructed between 1632 and 1648 by Shah Jahan in remembrance of his wife Mumtaz Mahal...
    117 KB (11,868 words) - 14:45, 26 August 2024
  • Shah, who became the Emperor Akbar Shah II in 1806 and his wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal, he was also the younger brother of Emperor Bahadur Shah II and older...
    7 KB (833 words) - 09:15, 17 July 2024
  • of his long standing betrothal to Arjumand Banu Begum later known as Mumtaz Mahal; set against that was the renewal of his central position on his father's...
    11 KB (1,493 words) - 16:16, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bibi Ka Maqbara
    Rabia-ul-Durrani). It bears a striking resemblance to the Taj Mahal, the mausoleum of Aurangzeb's mother, Mumtaz Mahal and that is why it is also called the Taj of the...
    15 KB (1,612 words) - 04:28, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rohtas Fort, India
    of Kampat. His son Murad Baksh was born to his wife Mumtaz Mahal. During Aurangzeb's reign the fort was used as a detention camp for those under trial...
    11 KB (1,627 words) - 06:54, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mehtab Bagh
    charbagh complex in Agra, North India. It lies north of the Taj Mahal complex and the Agra Fort on the opposite side of the Yamuna River, in the flood plains...
    14 KB (1,559 words) - 05:16, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shah Jahan period architecture
    Shah Jahan period architecture (category Taj Mahal)
    The most notable structures of this period include the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Red Fort in Old Delhi. Shah Jahan period architecture is distinguished...
    14 KB (1,988 words) - 05:28, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mughal architecture
    architectures, especially for Taj Mahal. Although some buildings built during his era was made of red sandstone, such as the Red Fort in Delhi, he preferred to...
    51 KB (5,555 words) - 19:26, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indo-Islamic architecture
    Tombs: Taj Mahal, Akbar's Tomb, Bibi ka Maqbara, Safdarjung Tomb and Humayun's Tomb Forts: Red Fort, Lahore Fort, Agra Fort and Idrakpur Fort Mosques: Jama...
    36 KB (4,326 words) - 09:44, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qudsia Begum
    Qudsiya, Sahiba-uz-Zamani, Sahibjiu Sahiba, Hazrat Qibla-i-Alam, and Mumtaz Mahal. She was known for her generosity. She gave pension to the Begums and...
    11 KB (1,300 words) - 22:00, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments
    the Red Fort at Agra (1565–74) and the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri (1569–74), as well as the Taj Mahal, which was built as a tomb for Queen Mumtaz Mahal...
    40 KB (3,948 words) - 17:12, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Delhi
    religions (Hindus, Sikhs, Jains) to Islam. Gaurishankar Temple Salimgarh Fort Mumtaz Mahal Gali Qasim Jan in Ballimaran is the site of Mirza Ghalib's haveli...
    30 KB (3,259 words) - 00:12, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Passing of Shah Jahan
    who had commissioned in his lifetime the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. The architectural facade which frames the painting...
    11 KB (1,395 words) - 05:24, 17 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mughal garden
    construction of the Taj Mahal, a sprawling funereal paradise in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. He is also responsible for the Red Fort at Delhi and the...
    20 KB (2,458 words) - 06:39, 10 April 2024
  • Mosques") constructed at her expense in c.1700 by the riverside wall of the Red Fort in Delhi, where she was buried. Tradition goes that she demanded the amount...
    7 KB (502 words) - 15:57, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phool Walon Ki Sair
    under orders of the British Resident. The mother of Mirza Jahangir Queen Mumtaz Mahal Begum, was distraught and took a vow that if her son was released from...
    12 KB (1,429 words) - 04:42, 18 October 2023
  • who constructed Taj Mahal, the Jama Masjid, the Shalimar Gardens of Lahore, the Wazir Khan Mosque, and who renovated the Lahore Fort. The last of the great...
    24 KB (1,207 words) - 04:15, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Daulatabad (1633)
    and withdrew to the north in 1632, partly due to the death of his wife Mumtaz Mahal a year prior. He appointed Mahabat Khan as governor of the Deccan. Fath...
    16 KB (1,958 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
    festival of Delhi. The festival has its origins in 1812, when Queen Mumtaz Mahal, wife of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar II (r. 1806–1837) made a vow to offer...
    18 KB (2,159 words) - 02:42, 18 June 2024