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History
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Agra hogged the limelight for the
first time in the medieval history, when Sikandar
Lodhi, the Lodhi ruler of Delhi decided to shift
his capital from Delhi to Agra in the 16th century.
Later after the foundation of the Mughal rule in
India, Agra witnessed large-scale developmental
work and it was at its zenith during the rule of
Akbar and Shah Jahan.
Agra remained capital of the
Mughal ruled India during the rein of the Mughal
emperors Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jahan (for a brief
period) and Aurangzeb (till his death). But it
was Shah Jahan, who gave Agra its most prized
monument-the Taj Mahal. Akbar built a number of
monuments, when he was in power. The Agra Fort
and the ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri are two of
his main contributions to the landscape of Agra.
Jehangir like his father Akbar built a number
of monuments in Agra but he spent most of his
time in Kashmir.
After the death Jehangir, Shah Jahan
became the emperor and he decided to shift the
capital to Delhi. But before moving to Delhi,
Shah Jahan built the most beautiful monument in
Agra, the Taj Mahal.
Built as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal,
the Taj Mahal took 20 years to complete. An army
of 20,000 labourers, architects and engineers
worked on Shah Jahan's dream mausoleum. The marble
stone used to build the Taj Mahal was brought
as far as from Sri Lanka and Tibet.
Agra sprang back to life in 1658, when Aurangzeb
shifted the capital back to Agra from Delhi and
imprisoned his father Shah Jahan in the Agra Fort.
Agra remained capital of India during the rule
of Aurangzeb till his death. After the end of
the Mughal rule, Agra was ruled by the Marathas
and Jats.
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