Taj Mahal

This guide to the Taj Mahal in Agra opens with four promises a dying wife asked of her husband, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, in 1631. It follows the twenty-thousand-strong workforce who spent over a decade raising this monument from marble hauled out of Rajasthan and gems gathered across Asia, and the toll her death took on the emperor himself. His son Aurangzeb later deposed him and held him under house arrest at the nearby Agra Fort.