The Taj Mahal. by Roshna Kapadia. Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1632–53 (photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0) Shah Jahan was the fifth ruler of the Mughal dynasty. During his third regnal year, his favorite wife, known as Mumtaz Mahal, died due to complications arising from the birth of their fourteenth child. Deeply saddened, the emperor started.

The Taj Mahal is a seventeenth-century mausoleum that is located on the southern bank of the Yamuna river in the city of Agra, in the Uttar Pradesh province in India. In 1631, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal to entomb his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal who died earlier that year. In addition to the mausoleum, the grounds of.