A History of Agriculture in India v2.c82.s4: Taj Mahal

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In 1631, Shah Jahan suffered the greatest sorrow of his life, when his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth. In the following year he started work on the world's noblest mausoleum in her memory, the Taj Mahal at Agra. It was completed in 1647 at a cost of 41 million rupees. Shah Jahan created a great garden around the Taj Mahal. The garden is a *Char-bagh*, a four-fold field plot, with a tank of white marble in the centre. The irrigation canal which contains fountains is flanked by cypresses whose columns harmonise with the four minarets.