Unknown facts of Tajmahal
The Taj Mahal built by the Mughal Emperor Khurram Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz.
Who was Mumtaz Mahal?
Mumtaz Mahal (September 1, 1593 — June 17, 1631) was a beautiful princess born into a Persian family in Agra. She married Shah Jahan at the age of 19. She was Shah Jahan’s favorite wife.
So let’s learn some amazing facts about the Taj Mahal:
1: Among the seven wives Mumtaz was Shah Jahan’s fourth wife.
2: Shah Jahan and Mumtaz had fourteen children. Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 at the age of 37, at the birth of her fourteenth child, Gauhara Begum.
3: After her death, he married her sister and built the great Taj Mahal as a symbol of his love for her.
4: Did the Shah Jahan cut off the workers’ hands after the Taj Mahal was built ?
- The chief engineer of the Taj Mahal was rewarded by Shah Jahan as the village Jahagiri and was given the authority to collect taxes from the village.
- Workers were well paid so that they would not have to go anywhere else.
At that time, a lot of technicians, workers were invited from outside the state and their hands were cut off, but no king could afford it. Because doing so would have resulted in workers not coming from other states for any other work. - Given the enormous cost of building the Taj Mahal as a whole, it is unlikely that there will be any more kings in that period who have ambitions to build such a structure.
5: He had ambitions to build a black Taj Mahal for himself but his son Aurangzeb captured Shah Jahan and killed him with treachery, so his dream was shattered.
6: The construction of the Taj Mahal took a long time to complete. The work started in 1631 was completed in 1653
And here is very interesting :
7: Today the Taj Mahal is safe. His credit goes to Mahadji Shinde’s general De Boine and to some extent Mahadji Shinde. De Boine caused the Western world to learn about the Taj Mahal. De Boyne preserved the building in 1794.
ताज क्या देखते हो,जन्नत तो ग्वालियर है
दिल्ली को भी पुछो उसकि जान मराठे हि है
- - -श्रीमंत श्री महादजी शिंदे सरकार
- The fact that Mahadji Shinde tied the horses of his army to the Taj Mahal is mentioned in much contemporary French correspondence.
- In 1784, de Boine, a French general, joined Mahadji Shinde’s Maratha army, having served in France and Russia. Initially, he formed two squadrons of 850 drill troops in just five months.
- In the battle of Tunga against the Rajputs, Mahadji Shinde was defeated at the time of Ain. 1789 No. He expressed his desire to Mahadji Shinde to make more pieces of the exercise force. But Mahadji refused. So De Boine quit Mahadji’s job. But he was called back and de Boin formed 9 more units of 850 troops. (Benoît de Boigne — Wikipedia)
- Mahadji Shinde’s battle with Mirza Ismail Beg took place near Bagh Dehra near Agra. At the time the horse was looking for a safe place from the rain and the river it was found in the form of the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is home to a number of small shelters.
- Originally French people were addicted to art so De Boine L loved the building. He was mesmerized by the beauty of the Taj Mahal. He did not like Mahadji’s idea of keeping horses here. But whether it was Maratha Rangada Gadi Mahadji Shinde or Shivaji Maharaj, this building was a waste of money. Even Aurangzeb did not like to spend on buildings.
- Next, why did Mahadji give some parts of Dean to De Boine for De Boine’s exercise force? It also had Agra. Due to this, De Boyne realized the importance of the Taj Mahal in the western world. Mahadji Shinde and De Boine are responsible for not knowing that the Taj Mahal is safe today.
References :
1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Taj_Mahal
2] http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in › bitstream
3] Benoît de Boigne — Wikipedia
4] General de Boigne and the Taj” Bengal Past and Present, Vol. XXXIII, Calcutta, 1927
