HISTORY
MEDIAVAL INDIA
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Question
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The construction of Taj Mahal was directed by
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Ustad Isa
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Asaf Khan
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Dara
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Aurangzeb
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The chief designer of this mausoleum was Isa Mohammad Khan who was assisted by Ustad Isa of Persia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ustad Ahmad (a.k.a. Isa Khan), an architect in the court of Shah Jahan from Lahore, is most often credited as the chief architect (or plan drawer) of the Taj Mahal, based on a seventeenth century manuscript which claims that Ustad Ahmad was the architect of both the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort at Delhi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Only a man with enormous resources, both monetary and artistic, could have built the Taj Mahal. That man was Shah-Jahan, fifth in a line of Muslim rulers called Mughals who controlled northern India from 1526 to 1858.
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