Product Description: Describes the Taj Mahal, including how and why it was built, how it was ruined and has been restored, and what it is like today.

Recounts the love story behind the building of the Taj Mahal in India, discussing how it was constructed and providing information on Indian culture.

Product Description: Taj Mahal (Places of Old) by Kate Riggs

Product Description: The Magnificent Mughals of India. Shah Jahan, ruler of India, murdered three of his brothers in his bloody rise to power. Yet when his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, suddenly died, the grief-stricken emperor built the world's most beautiful tomb as a monument to her memory...read more

Product Description: Tells the story of the Indian landmark, the Taj Mahal, built by a sultan as a tomb for his favorite wife who died in childbirth. Started in 1632 and completed 20 years later, it is surrounded by gardens and pools and welcomes 3 million visitors a year.

Leads the reader through the complex and gardens of the Taj Mahal, illustrated by hundreds of photographs and drawings and with an in-depth explanation of each building. This work gives an account of the mausoleum's urban setting, its design and construction, its symbolic meaning, and its history.

Product Description: Book by Shofner, Shawndra

Chronicles the construction of the tomb built by Mogul emperor Shah Jahan for his wife in the mid-seventeenth century, including current maintenance challenges.

Recounts the history of the creation of the Taj Mahal, built as a tomb and memorial for the wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

Describes the planning and construction of the tomb that became a symbol of undying love.

Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it each year it is simply a monument of love.The author shows how tourism can be seen as a performance and the tourist site as a stage on which tourists are directed and rehearsed but also able to improvise their own cultural rituals.

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Photos of the Taj Mahal focus on architectural details, the seasons, the surrounding area, and visitors, and are accompanied by a description of how and why it was built