Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal's names have been linked to each other throughout history, especially due to their connection with the Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan I, also known as Shah Jahan the Magnificent, ...

In the opening years of the twentieth century, Abanindranath Tagore (1871– 1951), Rabindranath's nephew and a prominent artist living at the Tagore palazzo in Calcutta, Jorasanko, made a trio of ...

After the death of his beloved wife, Emperor Shah Jahan spared no expense building her grand mausoleum. His obsession became a monument to everlasting love but bankrupted the Mughal empire. Color and ...

Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. By Ruby Lal. W.W. Norton & Company; 336 pages; $27.95 and £19.99. THAT India’s Mughal emperors could be devoted to their queens is no surprise. The Taj ...

The seventeenth-century historian and poet Abu Talib Kalim opens his description of the world-famous Taj Mahal with these words. Here we learn that the tomb complex was intended to rival the heavens, ...