Diwan-e-Khas
Marble hall of private audiences inside the Red Fort, once home to the legendary Peacock Throne.
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This guide to the Diwan-e-Khas in Agra's Red Fort opens in 1739, when Nadir Shah of Persia marched into Delhi and into this hall, setting his sights on Shah Jahan's legendary Peacock Throne of gold, rubies and gems. It traces the throne's decades on this spot after the hall's construction in 1648, and the fate that overtook it once it left India with Nadir Shah's army. Look up at the poet Amir Khusrow's verse still carved into the arches above the empty marble chamber.
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