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The first ceremony held at the mausoleum was an observance by Shah Jahan, on 6 February 1643, of the 12th anniversary of the death of Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around ₹ 5 million, which in 2023 would be approximately ₹ 35 billion ( US ...
Mumtaz also had a brother, Shaista Khan, who served as the governor of Bengal and various other provinces in the empire during Shah Jahan's reign. [26] Mumtaz was remarkable in the field of learning and was a talented and cultured lady. [27] She was well-versed in Arabic and Persian, and could compose poems in the latter.
Mumtaz died in Burhanpur on 17 June 1631, after complications with the birth of their fourteenth child, a daughter named Gauhara Begum. [5] She had been accompanying her husband whilst he was fighting a campaign in the Deccan Plateau. [6] Her body was temporarily buried in a garden called Zainabad on the banks of the Tapti River in Burhanpur. [5]
Here is the whole discussion on Mumtaz Mahal's ancestry: & . Ghia´s Beg of Ṭahrán is her grandfather. He was father of Nur Jahan & his second son is Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, Mumtaz Mahal's father.--Ddd0dd 14:11, 1 September 2009 (UTC) Here is Another source in Encyclopaedia Iranica, which is a reliable online sources.
1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
Khawar Mumtaz (born 29 June 1945) is a Pakistani women's rights activist, feminist author and university professor. [1] She is the Former Chairperson of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) who served for three consecutive terms from 2013 to 2019.
Mumtaz frequently acted with Feroz Khan and gave hits such as Mela (1971), Apradh (1972) and Nagin (1976). She acted opposite Dharmendra in films such as Loafer and Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973). Shashi Kapoor , who had earlier refused Sachaa Jhutha opposite her because she was a "stunt-film heroine" acted with her in Chor Machaye Shor (1973).
Aadam Aziz is a doctor and the father of Amina Sinai, or Mumtaz, Saleem's mother. He has many children with Naseem Ghani, and struggles with questions of the existence of God throughout the novel. He is a "half and halfer", an Indian with a western education and outlook. He narrowly survives death in the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.