Shah Jahan

\nShah Jahan (January 5, 1592 - January 22, 1666) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in India from 1627 until 1658. He commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal in Agra, as a burial place for his first wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal (meaning 'the first lady of the palace'). But for the last five years of his life he was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb in a room of Agra Fort, tended only by his eldest daughter Jahanara Begum, with a direct view of the Taj Mahal. This was punishment for his endorsing Dara Shikoh, Aurangzeb's older brother in the fight for succession, but it was a better fate than he might have expected; most Mughal Emperors killed their fathers upon succession. Shah Jahan is buried in the Taj Mahal, next to his first wife. Category:Mughal empire