Thursday 1 March 2012

Shah Jahan & Mumtaz

Shah Jahan was born in 1592, he was the emperor of the Mughal empire from 1628 until 1658. His name represented The King of the World.
Mumtaz was born in 1593 in Agra and she was into a Persian famlily nobility.

They get married in 1612, and Mumtaz was the third and favorite wife of Shah Jahan. They had fourteen chidren but unfortunately Mumtaz died accidently while giving birth to her 14th child. Shah Jahan built the great Taj Mahal in memory of his true LOVE and enventually is wife. But he was put in jail by one of his son. That jail was just in front of the monument, finally he died seeing his wife's tumb. This is a famous romantic story in India.



Sandrine and Jacqueline

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