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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Kandahari Begum (redirect from Kandahari Begum MAHAL)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Mehtab Bagh (section Black Taj Mahal)
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...
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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...
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Mughal architecture (section Taj Mahal)
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...
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Indo-Islamic architecture (section Red Fort)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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