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Chashme ShahiChashme Shahi began as a sacred discovery by Rupa Bhawani, a Kashmiri Pandit woman of the Sahib clan, who found a freshwater spring in the Zabarwan Range and…
Nishat BaghIn 1633, the elder brother of Empress Nur Jahan commissioned a garden that would become the second-largest Mughal garden in the Kashmir Valley, yet its…
Pari MahalThe seven-terraced structure known as Pari Mahal does not stand on flat ground but clings to the steep slopes of the Zabarwan mountain range, overlooking the…
Humayun's TombIn 1558, a grieving widow in Delhi made a promise that would alter the skyline of India forever. Empress Bega Begum, the first wife and chief consort of the…
Shalimar Bagh, SrinagarThe year 1619 marked the transformation of a modest ancient garden into the Shalimar Bagh, a masterpiece that would come to define the Mughal vision of…
Fatehpur SikriFatehpur Sikri was a metropolis of over 100,000 souls that was completely abandoned within a single generation, leaving behind a ghost town that would remain…
VerinagIn the year 1620, the Mughal emperor Jahangir stood before a shapeless marsh and made a decision that would transform a humble trickle of water into one of…
Taj MahalOn the 17th of June 1631, the Mughal Empire lost its most cherished empress when Mumtaz Mahal died giving birth to their fourteenth child, Gauhara Begum.