Agra
Marble Grief
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Mumtaz Mahal died bearing her fourteenth child in 1631, and Shah Jahan spent twenty-two years and the labour of twenty thousand workers on her mausoleum, inlaying white marble with twenty-eight kinds of stone brought from as far as Afghanistan and Tibet. He was deposed by his son and spent his last eight years imprisoned in the Agra fort, with a view of it across the river.
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