It has been mentioned in the previous article that, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Shah Jahan floated a global tender and the respondents were asked to submit designs and wooden models along with the tender. Innumerable plans with models had been received by the authorities and at last, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "The plan was prepared by a council of architects from India , Persia , Central Asia and beyond and the credit for the final plan was given to Ustad Isa of either Persian or Turkish origin." [1] Some historians believe that the name of the chief architect was Makamal Khan. And some others believe that his name was Abdul Karim.[2]

It is really amusing to note that, according to some Western historians, the chief architect was from Venice , Italy and his name was Jarenimo Verona [2]. But, most surprisingly, a French traveller called Thevenot, in 1650, said that the Taj Mahal was an excellent example of India 's finest artitechtural and artistic skill. [2] From the above discussions, it is not difficult to understand that there is no authentic source that contains the name of the chief architect and the names provided above are outcomes of wild conjectures. But the Munj Bateswar edict clearly states that the building, now called Taj Mahal, was built by the Chandel King Paramardi Dev nearly 500 years before the times of Shah Jahan and hence its architect must have been none other than an Indian or a Hindu architect.

Mr D J Kale, in his Epigraphica India, has given a genealogy of the Chandratreya or Chandel Kings, that shows that King Paramardi Dev ascended the throne in 1165 (or 1167 AD).[3] According to R C Majumdar, the Chandel Raj Paramardi Dev ruled from 1163 to 1203 AD. [4] It has also been mentioned earlier that, the Munj Bateswar Edict was laid in 1212 Vikram Samvat or 1156 AD. Or in other words, it was laid nearly 475 years before the death of Arjumand Banu, the wife of Shah Jahan.

The so called secular and Marxist historians of India, according to their policy of Muslim appeasement and to glorify the foreign Muslim invaders, are used to project Shah Jahan as a luxurious and foppish man having refined taste and say that due to this reason Shah Jahan used marble to build palaces and monuments. So, the historian S K Saraswati writes, "Imbued with the prevailing ideas and his (Shah Jahan's) love for pomp and luxury and display of splendour, Shah Jahan chose marble as the chief medium for all his architectural undertakings." [5] There is no doubt that Mr Saraswati points to Taj Mahal of Agra and the marble palace, called Dewan-i-Khas, inside the Red Fort in Delhi . But the Munj Bateswar Edict has disproved the claim of Shah Jahan's authorship of Taj Mahal. It has also been pointed out earlier that Shah Jahan's authorship of the Red Fort in Delhi is a fraud. But these spineless slave historians are harping on the same string and say that Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal in Agra and the Red Fort in Delhi.

Last update : 19-09-2009 23:20

Keywords : Distortion of Indian History for Muslim appeasement: Part 6C, Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari

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