Taj Mahal . a Story of Love and Empire

Book Name	Taj Mahal . a Story of Love and Empire
Author	Elizabeth Mann
Publish Year	2008
Publisher	Mikaya Press
Language	English
Genre	History
ISBN	NA
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Taj Mahal . a Story of Love and Empire is a story of taj mahal history by Elizabeth Mann, This sad and romantic tale is as well-known as the Taj Mahal itself. It has been repeated for centuries by people all over the world. But the story of the Taj Mahal is larger, wilder, and more complicated. It begins in the tiny kingdom of Ferghana in the mountains of Central Asia. There, in 1483, a warlord was tending his pigeons in their roost that sat high on the wall of his fortress. Suddenly the ancient wall crumbled, and the roost toppled down. The pigeons escaped to freedom; the warlord fell to his death. His son Babur, just 11 years old, became the ruler of Ferghana. Rival warlords planned their attacks. An army led by a child seemed an easy conquest, but Babur was not an ordinary child. Babur was descended from two of the greatest conquerors the world had ever known, the Mongol tribal leader Chinghis Khan and the Muslim Turk Timur. In the 1200s, Chinghis Khan and his horsemen built an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean across Asia to Europe, and south to the Indus River in Hindustan (India). In the 1300s, Timur conquered most of Central Asia, then went on to plunder northern Hindustan.