Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's Tomb
Stripped Mughal mausoleum whose marble was plundered in the seventeen hundreds to finish a rival tomb.
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This guide to Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's Tomb in Delhi tells of the poet-general Rahim, one of Akbar's nine gems, orphaned as a child after his father's assassination and raised by the emperor himself. It follows how he built this mausoleum for his wife in 1598 and was buried beside her in 1627, and how decades later a vizier named Safdarjung needed marble for his own tomb with an empty treasury. Look at the bare dome above you as you listen — it was never meant to be seen.
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