Shah Jahan - The Emperor Who Built the Taj Mahal Documentary
Shah Jahan, fifth Mughal emperor: a documentary on the Taj Mahal and Mumtaz Mahal, the Red Fort in Delhi and his imprisonment by his son Aurangzeb. The Mughal empire was at the height of its architectural splendour under Shah Jahan, who was born Prince Khurram in 1592, the son of Jahangir and grandson of Akbar, and became its fifth emperor in 1628. When his wife Mumtaz Mahal died in 1631 he commissioned the Taj…