“However, the question who built Taj Mahal no longer remains a mystery. Surely it was not built by Shah Jahan but by architects, calligraphers, masons, stone-cutters, and metal workers and ordinary laborers who built it and made it a symbol of creative mind of the Indian society.”

—  Mubarak Ali

In Search of History, Chapter: Conspiring against Taj Mahal, p. 47
History, Architecture

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