where is the Taj Mahal located.
And in science: Why is the marble of the Taj Mahal getting yellow? Later that year, I vividly remember getting in a long queue with my dad waiting our turn to get the entry ticket to walk through the gates of the Taj. Rs. 10 per adult read a cardboard hanging over the counter. To my left, a few Americans had lined up to buy their tickets, the only difference being that their cardboard read, Rs. 50. I didn’t get a convincing enough answer from anyone for this segregation (I learned that word much later) and I didn’t bother. That was 15 years ago.
Taj Mahal is in Agra, a city on the banks of the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, India. It finds mention in the epic Mahabharata when it was called Agrabana, or Paradise. Ptolemy, the famous 2nd century geographer, marked it on his map of the world as Agra. Tradition and legend ascribe the present city of Raja Badal Singh (around 1475 CE) whose Fort, Badalgarh, Stood on or near the site of the present Fort. However, the 12th century Persian poet Salman writes of a desperate assault on the fortress of Agra, then held by one King Jaipal, by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.[1] It was ruled by Sultan Sikandar Lodi in the year 1506. It achieved fame as the capital of the Mughal emperors from 1526 to 1658 and remains a major tourist destination because of its many splendid Mughal-era buildings, most notably the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri, all three of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
