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A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time

The Story of the Taj Mahal

Diana Preston, Michael Preston

Transworld Digital
Publication date : 2010-12-07

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In 1631, the heartbroken Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan, ordered the construction of a monument of unsurpassed splendour and majesty in memory of his beloved wife. Theirs was an extraordinary story of passionate love: although almost constantly pregnant - she bore him fourteen children - Mumtaz Mahal followed her husband on every military campaign.But then Mumtaz died in childbirth. Blinded by grief, Shah Jahan created an exquisite and extravagant memorial for her on the banks of the river Jumna. The Taj Mahal took twenty years to build and depleted the Moghul treasuries.But Shah Jahan was to pay a greater price for his obsession. He ended his days imprisoned by his own son in Agra Fort, gazing across the river at the monument to his love. The building of the Taj Mahal had set brother against brother and son against father in a savage conflict that pushed the seventeenth century's most powerful empire into irreversible decline.

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About the book

Author

Diana Preston , Michael Preston

Imprint

Transworld Digital

Collection

n.c

Publication date

2010-12-07

Pages

416 pages

Print ISBN

9780552166881

Language

English

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EAN EPUB

9781446421468

Price

£3.99

Copy count 41

Print count 41

File size 3133 Ko

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About author(s)

Diana Preston

Michael Preston

Diana Preston's most recent books are Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania (now also a major BBC1 drama documentary), A Pirate of Exquisite Mind and Before the Fall-Out (selected for the Samuel Johnson Prize longlist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Prize). Her new book, Cleopatra and Anthony, will shortly be published by Doubleday. Her co-author is her husband Michael Preston, an historian and traveller.

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