India's Taj Mahal is one of the world's most iconic and beloved structures. The love story on which it is founded is scarcely less celebrated - it was built by the
Indian emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved consort, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth in 1631. The Taj is universally recognised as the sweetest architectural flower of the Mughal era, when India was ruled by Muslim ...