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Love Carved in Stone

“…the thing seemed full of sorrow—the sorrow of the man who built it for the woman he loved…the Taj flushed in the sunlight and was beautiful, after the beauty of a woman who has done no wrong.” (Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, 1887)

Legend recounts that at sixteen, future Mogul emperor Shah Jahan fell in love with Mumtaz Mahal at first sight. Five years later they were wed, and in nineteen years of marriage, Mumtaz ruled with him almost as an equal. She died in childbirth in 1631. He was grief-stricken but determined to build what is perhaps the finest monument to the love shared by two human beings.

Taj Mahal

2001. Photograph.