Thread by @meenakshisharan

We would hound the life out of the courts & @ASIGoI to open all the rooms in all the seven stories of #tejomahalaya
Why aren’t they eager to find out the hidden evidences, or are they only deceptive ornamental bodies?

Did @ASIGoI ever open & study evidences in all the rooms barred by Shahjahan with brick & lime?
Are they hiding the fact,that Shahjahan’d brow beaten Jaisingh to surrender #Tejomahalay
dug a grave in its basement,erected a cenotaph on ground floor,etched koranic verses on walls?

Shahjahan’s Badshahnama documented by Abdul Hamid Lahori (in Abul Fazal’s Akbarnama style as Shahjahana wanted) admits that #TejoMahalaya is a ‘Hindu palace seized, to re-bury Mumtaz months after she was buried in Burhanpur’!
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https://twitter.com/meenakshisharan/status/1524792158997610497

4. Persian Badshahnama in its original form was also published Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Badshahnama also states: “5th gen ancestor of Shahjahan, Babur lived in #Tejomahalaya “ ( 100 yrs before Mumtaz died!?)

Vincent Smith also writes that Babur died in Taj Palace!
@ASIGoI

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Why did Sahjahan not buid ‘Taj Mahal’ in Burhanpur where Mumtaz died & was first buried in an open ground?
Why did he exhume & disturb ‘his so beloved’ 6 months later to carry her 965 kilometres away to Agra & start building Taj or to a Taj built in 6 months? @irfhabib

6- Agra was visited by many foreign merchants & #TajMahalAgra was the most splendid palace with had a large bazar with large courts, porticos, chambers for merchants, where huge cotton trade happened.

Shahjahan seized it hence!

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The 6 months lapse to Mumtaz’s body to Agra happened since it took Shahjahan 6 months to confiscate #Tejomahalaya from Jaisingh under the false excuse of Mumtaz’s re burial!
“Her body was buried under lofty dome of Mansingh’s palace then under his grandson Jaisingh”
-Badhahnama

8- An extortionist, destroyer & plunderer, torturer & ravager is praised as a connoisseur of art devoted husband to Arjumand Bano alias Mumtaz
what an irony of Indian History!
“ek shehenshah ne banwa ke hasin TJ Mahal, saari duniya ko muhabbat ki nishani di hai” uspe Bollywood🤦‍♀️

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14 children out of 18 yrs of married life:
1 Huriel Nisa born in 1612
2 Jahanara (had illicit relations with)
3 Dara Sheko
4 Shah Shuka
5 Roshanara
6 Aurangzeb
7 Umaid Baksh
8 Suria Bano
9 son born in 1621, died after birth
10 Murad Baksh
11 Latfulla
12 Daulat Afzal

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13th was an unnamed daughter born & died in 1628
Arjumand Bano died while giving birth to the 14th child, Gauhara in 1629. Kya ishq tha 🤓!