As a tribute to a woman of exotic beauty and as a monument of a love story, which is keeping us engrossed even when we are reading through these pages here, truely an ever-lasting romance of a love not ended as yet, the Taj reveals its subtleties to its beholder!
The rectangular base of Taj is in itself symbolic of the different sides from which to view a beautiful woman. In Indian tradition the veil is lifted gently to reveal the beauty of the bride. As one stands inside the main gate of Taj, his eyes are directed to an arch which frames the Taj. The dome is made of white marble, but the tomb is set against the plain across the river and it is this background that works its magic of colours that, through their reflection, change the view of the Taj.
The colours change at different hours of the day and during different seasons. The Taj sparkles like a jewel in moonlight when the semi-precious stones inlaid into the white marble on the main mausoleum catch and reflect back its glow with a better gleam. The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines. These changes, they say, depict the different moods of a beauty of any kind. Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that the Taj has a life of its own that leaps out of marble.
A masterpiece of the art and science of architecture, a representative of an era called The Mughal Period surpassing any authority to add or de-add anything in any sense in or out of the Taj! The Taj is not merely a monument of grace and dignity alone. Its foundation was laid in and it was completed in 22 years with 20 thousand workers working every day. The transparent marble interior walls from Rajasthan are decorated with rubies, sapphires, diamonds, emeralds, agate, turquoise, mother-of-pearl and pearls.
Surah Yasin was inscribed on the interior and exterior of the tomb by engraving black marble into the white marble. Four outward-slanting minarets were added to the corners so that they would not damage the building if it was hit by an earthquake.
Being a single piece of marble, the entrance door of the tomb is 33 meters feet tall, an elegant mosque on the left, a symmetrical mihmanhane guesthouse on the right; the garden adorned with pools and the magnificent red stone exterior door fascinate people.
Although a greedy British governor put this magnificent building up for sale during the colonial period, it could not find a buyer due to the stock market crisis. Shah Jahan wanted to have a similar one constructed in black, the color of mourning, built next to the Taj Mahal for himself.
In order to prevent this as it would incur a great expense for the treasury, his son Alamgir Aurangzeb deposed him and forced him to reside in the Agra Fortress.
Shah Jahan, already embittered, did not object to this. On his deathbed, he had a mirror placed in front of him and continued to watch the Taj Mahal. When he died, he was buried next to his wife. Now two lovers rest in their eternal sleep in a room where every sound is reflected seven times. Countless visitors from the seven corners of the realm also commemorate the two heroes of this distinguished love.
The whole world bows in admiration before this magnificent work, which was built with knowledge, emotion, labor and wisdom four centuries ago. Babur Shah also had a strange love story. He fell in love with his wife's sister.
The religion of Islam allows a man to marry up to four women, provided that he acts fairly. But it forbids him from marrying two sisters at the same time. For this reason, Babur separated from his wife and married his sister-in-law. He was very saddened when his wife, Masuma Begum, whom he had taken a great risk to marry, died while giving birth to a child. Historians agree that imperial women in the Mughal period exercised significant political authority. The play recreates 17th Century Delhi, buzzing with political intrigue where the fight for political power was often ugly and bloody.
It opens with the rivalry for the imperial throne between Shah Jahan and his brother Prince Pervez, and Mumtaz plays a crucial role in her husband's victory by poisoning his rival.
As the play progresses, different shades of Mumtaz's personality come to the fore - a devoted wife who is a guide and adviser to her husband, but at the same time with a mind of her own. The play's great surprise centres on a high-stakes game of chess played one evening, when a pregnant Mumtaz nudges the emperor to bet his throne.
When he loses the game she ascends the throne, giving free rein to her ruthlessness and ambition. The emperor then realises that his beloved queen must be stopped.
A tussle over the royal seal ends with her fall from the throne, and soon Mumtaz dies in childbirth. The play is open-ended - it doesn't say in so many words that Mumtaz was killed. But it does leave one with a lingering suspicion, that perhaps the emperor did have a role in her death. Future conservation work will need to follow guidelines that ensure that qualities such as form and design continue to be preserved. The management of Taj Mahal complex is carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India and the legal protection of the monument and the control over the regulated area around the monument is through the various legislative and regulatory frameworks that have been established, including the Ancient Monument and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act and Rules Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Amendment and Validation ; which is adequate to the overall administration of the property and buffer areas.
Additional supplementary laws ensure the protection of the property in terms of development in the surroundings. An area of 10, sq km around the Taj Mahal is defined to protect the monument from pollution. The fund provided by the federal government is adequate for the buffer areas. The fund provided by the federal government is adequate for the overall conservation, preservation and maintenance of the complex to supervise activities at the site under the guidance of the Superintending Archaeologist of the Agra Circle.
The implementation of an Integrated Management plan is necessary to ensure that the property maintains the existing conditions, particularly in the light of significant pressures derived from visitation that will need to be adequately managed. The Management plan should also prescribe adequate guidelines for proposed infrastructure development and establish a comprehensive Public Use plan.
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