Tomb of Akbar
Mughal mausoleum of red sandstone and marble, blending Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist, and Jain motifs.
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This guide to Akbar's mausoleum in Agra follows the Mughal emperor's decision, around 1600, to build his own resting place — a five-story red sandstone monument his son Jahangir finished by 1613, its marble gateway blending Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist and Jain motifs from a famously pluralist court. It traces the empire's unraveling decades later under Aurangzeb, and what a Jat chieftain named Raja Ram brought to this ridge in 1688.
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