Controversy about Taj Mahal

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Real History of "Taj Mahal"

"The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal

built the Taj Mahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000

artisans brought to India from all over the world! . Many people

believe Ustad Isa of Iran designed it." This is what your guide
probably
told you if

you ever visited the Taj Mahal. This is the same story I read in my

history book as a student.

NOW READ THIS.......

No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the

whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak

says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu
temple

palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalay! a). In the course of

his research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped
by

Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court
chronicle,

Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand

mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial. The
ex-Maharaja of

Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah
Jahan for

surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as

a burial place ! for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice
among
Muslim

rulers.

For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all

buried in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj

Mahal. He says the term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in
any
Muslim

countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria. "The unusual explanation that

the term Taj Mahal de! rives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast
two
respects.

Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he

writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a

woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for the
building."Taj
Mahal,

he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's
Palace.

Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale

created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy
archaeologists.

Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the
love

story. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj
Mahal

predates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva,

worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller
of New
York

took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon
dating
tests

revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European

traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven
years

after Mumtaz's death), describes the life of the city in his memoirs.
But he

makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of
Peter
Mundy,

an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also

suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's
time.

Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural

inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a

typical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum.Many rooms in the Taj !
Mahal
have remained

sealed since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the
public. Oak

asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects

commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples. Fearing political
backlash,

Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book withdrawn
from the

bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition

dire consequences. There is only one way to discredit or validate

Oak's research.

The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal

under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.

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reality.....

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http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm