Taj Mahal: One of the wonder of the world (Part – 3)

By Asad Russel – 

After Part – 2
The history of the Taj Mahal:
As the example by the 1643 was completed essentially the mausoleum, but of the complex on the rest continued the work. Across the time in estimating the cost to difficulties vary due of the construction of the cost which estimates. At that time 32 million Rupees to be about has been estimated the total cost.

From all over the Asia and India using the materials was constructed the Taj Mahal and the building materials to transport were used over 1,000 elephants. From the Makrana, Rajasthan the white marble of translucent, from the Punjab the jasper and from the China the crystal and jade was brought. From the Tibet the turquoise and from the Afghanistan the Lapis Lazuli, while from the Arabia the carnelian and from the Sri Lanka the sapphire came from. Into the white marble were inlaid of semi-precious and precious about 28 types in all.

Under the supervision of imperial to a board of architects was entrusted of the Taj Mahal the construction which includes the Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, Abdul Karim Mamur Khan and Makramat Khan. As the principal designer is considered generally the Lahauri. Across the northern India was recruited 20,000 of workers force of labour. From the Bukhara the sculptors, from the Persia and Syria the calligraphers, from the southern India the in-layers,  from the Baluchistan the stone cutter, in the turrets of building a specialist, only the marble flowers who carved another of the 37 men were the part the creative unit who formed.

For the Badshahnama the author the Abdul Hamid Lahauri, of the reign of Shah Jahan which is the official history, as the rauza-I munawwara calls the Taj Mahal, the illustrious tomb or the illumined tomb which means. The completion of the Taj Mahal soon after, by the son of the emperor the Aurangzeb was deposed the emperor Shah Jahan himself and at the Agra fort which is nearby as arrest put under the house. After the death of the Shah Jahan, next to his wife in the mausoleum buried him the Aurangzeb.

Invaded Agra of the Bharatpur the rulers of Jat and the Taj Mahal attacked in the 18th century, the chandeliers of two among them one of the silver and another was the agate the main cenotaph over which were hung, by them were taken away, also the screen of gold and silver. According to the Kanbo who was the Mughal historian, with a shield of gold was covered of the Taj Mahal of the main dome at the top the finial which is 15 feet high and during the despoliation this was removed also.

Into disrepair badly had fallen parts of the buildings in the late 19th century. In 1857 of the Indian rebellion during the time, by the soldiers of the British and officials of the government was defaced the Taj Mahal, from its walls the lapis lazuli and precious stones who chiseled out. A restoration project of sweeping ordered the British viceroy Lord Curzon of the 19th century at the end, in 1908 which was completed. In the interior chamber the large lamp he commissioned also, in a Cairo mosque after one modelled. With the lawns of British style was remodeled the garden during this time still today which are in place.

Will Continue……..  

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