
2017
301-400 Pages
Paperback
Action And Adventure Novels
TIMERI N. MURARI
9789382277347
Action & Adventure
Aleph Book Company
English
India
Name : Taj: A Story of Mughal India
Author : TIMERI N. MURARI
Book Format : Paperback
Genre : Action & Adventure
ISBN : 9789382277347
Language : English
Pages : 301-400 Pages
Publish Year : 2017
Publisher : Aleph Book Company
Sub Genre : Action And Adventure Novels
When his queen, Arjumand Banu - Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the Chosen One of the Palace - died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfect love for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand men laboured day and night to fulfil the emperors obsession. The result was the Taj Mahal, a marble mausoleum lined with gold, silver and precious jewels. This powerful novel narrates the story of the Taj on two parallel levels. The first one tells the passionate love story of Shah Jahan and Arjumand till her death through the voices of three main characters - Arjumand, Shah Jahan and Isa, Arjumands favourite eunuch. The second recounts the later years of Shah Jahans reign, the building of the Taj Mahal and the bloody pursuit of the fabled Peacock Throne by his sons. Intertwined with the narrative about the building of the Taj is the story of Murthi, the Hindu craftsman sent as a gift to the emperor to carve the famous marble jali around Arjumands sarcophagus. In this complex and fascinating book, Murari has written much more than a historical romance. He has skillfully recreated the period against which the story is set : the opulence of the palace and the grinding poverty of seventeenth-century India, the vicissitudes of Shah Jahans reign and the often bitter conflict between men of different faiths
Country of Origin : India
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