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This is a terrible drive-by shot of the Red Fort. To finish the story of the Taj...Shah Jahan was so bereft after his wife died giving birth to their 14th child, that he spent the rest of his life waging war to raise money to build her tomb. It took 22,000 workers over 20 years to complete the process. His goal was to have an identical tomb built for himself out of black marble, across the courtyard from the Taj. However, his bad son Aurenzgrab had other ideas. He killed all his brothers, put his dad in jail and took the empire for his own.

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