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The Love Story Behind The Taj Mahal
The capital of the Mogul Empire, was Agra, the centre of Imperial power where the royal dynasty lived in the magnificent Taj Mahal. The story of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, defied the eastern world's concept of impersonal love as they had a romance quite rare for their time.
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