Chini Ka Rauza

This guide to Chini Ka Rauza in Agra opens in 1635, when Shah Jahan's Grand Vizier Allami Afzal Khan built himself a tomb in Agra years before he needed one. You'll hear about the glazed Chinese tiles that once covered every surface, giving the tomb its name, and about the Quranic inscriptions attributed to his brother Amanat Khan, the calligrapher who later worked on the Taj Mahal. By the time Lord Curzon saw it in 1899, those tiles were already vanishing.